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Do the GitHub Terms of Service give them the necessary permissions for Copilot, independently of the license? (I honestly don't know the answer; this is a strai

• ghoward 5y ago
  I don't know. Because I don't know is why I pulled all of my code (except for a permissively-licensed project that people actually depend on the GitHub link for) off of GitHub.
• shakna 5y ago
  > The licenses you grant to us will end when you remove Your Content from our servers, unless other Users have forked it. [0] I don't see how they can keep this clause, and then have a service that recites/redistributes code, based on a model that has already ingested said code. > This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service, except that as part of the right to archive Your Content, GitHub may permit our partners to store and archive Your Content in public repositories in connection with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault and GitHub Archive Program. [1] Copilot is distributed verbatim code when it regurgitates, which seems a pretty clear violation of this clause. (If it wasn't regurgitating, they'd have caselaw for fair use. But... It is.) [0] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service#3-ownership-of-content-right-to-post-and-license-grants https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o... [1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service#4-license-grant-to-us https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...