On Sun 2022-06-26 17:25:24 -0700, Marc Sunet wrote: >> I feel that one difference between the values of free software and open >> source is that the free software does not have a problem with taking >> people's work and re-selling it, as long as the work being resold is >> free. Whereas open source focus more on what authors get out of "open >> source". > > And in this case it is SaaSS. Not only is it trained on the existing > code in the repositories, it also seems to siphon code off your editor > as you type: > > https://github.com/features/copilot/#faq-privacy
Of course there are ways to make it not SaaSS or privacy invading, if one is going to work on a free software version of copilot - all they need to do is not replicate the antifeatures. > >> GitHub Copilot relies on file content and additional data to > work. It collects data both to provide the service and saves some of > the data to perform further analysis and enable improvements. > >> Depending on your preferred telemetry settings, GitHub Copilot may > also collect and retain the following, collectively referred to as > “code snippets”: source code that you are editing, related files and > other files open in the same IDE or editor, URLs of repositories and > files paths. > Best, Yuchen -- PGP Key: 47F9 D050 1E11 8879 9040 4941 2126 7E93 EF86 DFD0 <https://ypei.org/assets/ypei-pubkey.txt> _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss