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if you're worried about copilot: isn't the problem is that copyright law (apparently) allows them to do it? if you move everything to gitlab/self-hosted there'
by blibble 4y ago
if you're worried about copilot: isn't the problem is that copyright law (apparently) allows them to do it?
if you move everything to gitlab/self-hosted there's nothing stopping them spending 5 minutes querying the bing index and feeding it every repo they find
- rst 4y agoWell, they're asserting copyright law allows them to do it. It's not clear how well that would hold up in court against a well-funded lawsuit -- but that would require someone whose code got regurgitated substantially intact by Copilot, who also had the resources to manage the suit.
- sreevisakh 4y agoCopying off Github and copying off another host is not quite the same. I explained it twice on this thread already. So I'm leaving a link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31937705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31937705