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I am a copyright abolitionist and a Copilot critic, and this worldview is not dissonant. An ideal world would not have copyright and would require all software
by ddevault 4y ago
I am a copyright abolitionist and a Copilot critic, and this worldview is not dissonant. An ideal world would not have copyright and would require all software to be free software, but we live in a world where copyright exists. FOSS projects throwing up their hands and saying "forget the licenses" is counter-productive because the commercial world will not throw up their hands and say "forget copyright, do whatever you want with our code". But, at the same time, they will gladly consume FOSS work into their products. The war on copyright has not yet been won, so the weapons cannot be set aside.
Addressing this exact premise is the purpose of copyleft licenses like the GPL. I would expect GitHub of all companies to understand this, and it's a spit in the face to disregard it, a spit in the face of the entire FOSS community to which they owe their success.
Disclosure: founder of a GitHub competitor