I think that the point is mainly how much means a copyright issue to train a
machine learning model that can recreate the original with a specific
percentage of similarity bu chunks (and define what means a chunk for code).
As example if GPL license says that you can use the 30% of code lines for usage
to generate a model (I don't know a better lawyer term) I think that everything
will be solved.
This is a new area for lawyers to discuss and also for OSI and we cannot do
anything for that as it isn't covered and there are difference between
countries a lot.
Honestly I think that the issue there is the GitHub behaviour that if also they
are allowed to do something with the source the users upload there they are not
releasing the list of repositories used or specified projects by license (if
they are private or public too). Or just asked for permissions for it as it is
splitting the dev community that are their customers after all.
We cannot forget that we don't know if they used also repositories with no
licenses that are the facto proprietary and this happens a lot on GitHub.
My personal notes about abandoning GitHub as protest. I have everything on
GitHub since 2012 with like 46 repositories on my profile (not talking about
the various organizations and forks) and is not easy to migrate to a different
platform and change all the reference to those. Also there is the issues of the
many forks that aren't on GitHub so is not possible to contribute.
So I think that the only way is forcing GitHub to do something, like specify
more clearly what they are doing and how.
FSFE and maybe also FSF can think on creating a campaign to asks to GitHub to
do that changes.
Daniele Scasciafratte - OpenSource MultiVersal Guy
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Il 12/07/21 23:16, marc ha scritto:
If
I ROT13 a Metallica mp3, then there is an algorithmic
transformation and new file is clearly different, but it
is possible to recover the original. In the same way it
could be argued that the copilot model encodes the input
code in its weightings. I suppose there are some losses,
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