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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

You can host copyleft as well as all rights reserved code on GitHub. It's not like Codeberg.

[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Yeah, they aren't supposed to scrape that stuff. That's kind of where I'm wondering if they limited their collections.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Okay, I see you, I think I may have misunderstood how you were phrasing it. Thinking you were saying they were scanning all of GitHub because it's all permissive.

[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We'll they said they only scanned stuff that would have allowed them implicitly, now did they really respect that? Their ''stack'' is public, so people can review it. It's opensource, people can audit it at least.

The big giants can lift whatever they want from Github and we wouldn't have the means to prove it. I'm sure Microsoft is using private repos as they like. It's not a coincidence that Copilot was one of the earlier coding LLMs.

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