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But that doesn't address code licensing. GitHub is attempting to dance the around licensing issue by reframing the argument as a pure copyright issue. There's i

But that doesn't address code licensing. GitHub is attempting to dance the around licensing issue by reframing the argument as a pure copyright issue. There's is no such thing as 'fair use' when it comes to licensed code unless it's implicitly granted by the license. For example you can't take GPLv3 licensed code, copypasta it into your proprietary app and call it 'fair use'. Github can't legally indemnify devs from using 3rd party licensed code.

randombits0 3y ago
The license is entirely based on the rights of owning the copyright. You cannot (effectively) license that which cannot be copyrighted. I can certainly take GPLv3 code and plop it into my app if the code is not subject to copyright. Without the copyright, there is no license.