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Lol. "Information wants to be free, man!" Steals music and movies 20 years later: "Let's sue Github"
by zephyr9 4y ago
Lol.
"Information wants to be free, man!" Steals music and movies
20 years later: "Let's sue Github"
- GuB-42 4y agoThis is not exclusive. I guess you are talking about GitHub "stealing" code for its copilot service. They didn't "free" anything. All the code they took is publicly available, they just took it and included it into proprietary software. And part of the code they took is under a license (GPL) that essentially says "you can do what you want with the code, as long as you share what you are doing with it", and they don't. Copilot is not public. Not only that, but by potentially suggesting snippets of GPL code in projects that are not open source, they encourage others to do the same.
- zephyr9 4y agoYeah man I get it. I was pointing out a good ol' case of "rules for thee but not for me".