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Microsoft owns GitHub and you accept their terms of service. Copilot is trained on public GitHub repositories of any license: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G

• judge2020 5y ago
  If it's legally sound to do that, then it's legally sound to scrape code from Stack overflow as well. No special license is granted to GitHub to train CoPilot; the hosting license in the ToS[0] specifically doesn't allow its use outside of GitHub itself[1], so i'd argue that applies to running copilot in VSCode for code not destined for GitHub - and i'm sure MS's lawyers reviewed such a product launch. 0: 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... 1: > This license does not grant GitHub the right to .. otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service