FSFs reasoning: 1. it's proprietary 2. copilot is for-profit 3. GitHub's Contract with ICE 4. their entire hosting site is, itself, proprietary and/or trade

FSFs reasoning: 1. it's proprietary 2. copilot is for-profit 3. GitHub's Contract with ICE 4. their entire hosting site is, itself, proprietary and/or trade-secret software 5. GitHub does not even offer any self-hosting FOSS option. 6. GitHub has long sought to discredit copyleft generally. 7. GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing. --- Thoughts regarding those 1. i'm not a religious zealot. I'm not opposed to people making proprietary software. I'm not opposed to using proprietary software. 2. see my comment on 1. Also, even if you disagree with the license violation bs that it does, not using github won't stop it. If everyone abandon's github, a) GitLab will fill in the gap b) CoPilot or its successor will just start trawling every public git repo it can find instead of just the ones on GitHub. This will happen eventually anyway so any argument against CoPilot is unaffected (long term) by abandoning github. 3. Valid. Honestly, i thought they'd abandoned that. 4. same as 1 5. duh, because 1 6. uh... say what? They couldn't exist without it. 7. And have since changed their tune and fully embraced it.