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I have ~400KLOC changed on GitHub. 1% of the time happens multiple times a day given scale. Pragmatically, people are already knowingly committing commercially

I have ~400KLOC changed on GitHub. 1% of the time happens multiple times a day given scale. Pragmatically, people are already knowingly committing commercially viable copyright violations of my work. I'd rather it wasn't encouraged further by a US-based 'big tech', especially if the people using my code aren't aware that they're doing anything questionable. Some months, I earn over 100x less from OSS than I would in industry. I don't want people taking advantage any more than I'm comfortable with, especially for commercial purposes.

visarga 4y ago
It's the wild west phase, after it settles down there will probably be ways to signal you don't want to allow training on your code. But I think it's just like taking your grain of sand from the beach so nobody else can have it. The beach is going to be just the same.
- ISL 4y ago
  As part of the wild-west phase, it is possible that the inclusion of a single identifiable AGPL project in the training set leads to the licensing of Copilot as AGPL. Such an outcome might lead hastily to the future you imagine.