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bmitc on Nov 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot

I played around with creating an MIT license on my GitHub that explicitly forbids Copilot and other such systems that I thought I may update my projects to, because I strongly dislike the data collection. I'm not a lawyer though.

Is there a GutHub terms of agreement that covers Copilot?

remram on Nov 4, 2022 [–]

They claim it is fair use, therefore they can bypass copyright (and therefore license terms).

It being in GitHub has not been brought up as a factor yet (by GitHub/Microsoft), AFAIK they could use code from other places with that logic, they just don't need to.

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