Submitted by dadofbimbim t3_yejhi1 in technology
9-11GaveMe5G t1_itym7qd wrote
Reply to comment by VietQuads in Four years after being acquired by Microsoft, GitHub keeps doing its thing by dadofbimbim
Yes. It appears to be an unfounded one, but it's only unfounded till it isn't
tismij t1_ityq4sx wrote
Not unfounded, they use your code without asking.
Cookizza t1_ityxygs wrote
Damn, the last thing I want when I push my project to Github is someone to use it without asking. I'm out!
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anlumo t1_itz1esu wrote
They use GPL code for Copilot, which strips the license and just leaves the code to be used for whatever you want.
theschuss t1_itz9bzr wrote
Small snippets, and I believe they're in the process of cleaning up it's acquisition rules for training. There's a ton of legal precedent around small snippets of "obvious" code being unpatentable (think for loops or iterators)
anlumo t1_itz9xy7 wrote
That's not obvious code: https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581402212319666176
HanzJWermhat t1_iu2qx8o wrote
Not true. Code is protected under IP copywriter law it’s basically treated like a book or piece of music. You have a responsibility to declare its license rights. By default I think it’s no rights even if the code is public. MS or anyone dumb enough to not check for open source licensing before using the code would open themselves up to absurd litigation l.
workworkworkworky t1_iu07q5t wrote
Oh, come on. Microsoft has never acquired a company and then drove it straight into the ground. cough Skype cough
ScrewedThePooch t1_iu4nv6a wrote
Skype is shit and always has been absolute garbage. Microsoft only made it worse, but it was never good.
rotipoeg t1_iu5wyqf wrote
Skype was actually quite decent for its time imo
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