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I'm using Github to publish my code and seriously I don't care whenever Copilot was trained using it. I published it and in the end somebody can do anything with it without giving a damn about license, copyright etc - that's the truth of open-source.

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This was the same mentality that brought copyleft to the masses in 1984. While you may not care, there are others who do care about the sanctity of license agreements. This is an argument where staying silent means you accept this approach. Of the millions of open source projects, a large portion of the contributors ARE speaking up because they don't find this to be acceptable. I personally think copilot is the future and all this discussion is doing is going to bring a license usage feature to copilot (e.g. i want only or i do not want GPL code in my copilot suggestions)

Please continue using GitHub as you were, but maybe consider acting on your words and either removing or changing licenses within your code that does not represent your ideals. Nothing is preventing you from releasing code into the public domain, so do that!

> Of the millions of open source projects, a large portion of the contributors ARE speaking up because they don't find this to be acceptable.

Is this true? Is there really a large portion of contributors speaking up against this? I got the opposite sense, that it was a very small portion of contributors speaking up against this but I don't have any evidence one way or the other.

> that's the truth of open-source

No, that's your opinion, which as it turns out also has no legal basis. For me, I want proper attribution from people who use my code. And for any code that I release that's under copyleft, I absolutely do want that license followed.

You seem to be fine releasing your stuff into the public domain, and that's great that you want to do that, but you don't speak for everyone.

Well then you're a BSD-license kind of person.

Not everybody is and that's ok too.

The BSD license still requires attribution and copyright notices visible to the end user.

This is why there are a multitude of different open source software licences. Because some people care more than others about the terms in which their code is used by others.

That is a valid position one can have.

However other people for varying reasons have other ideas ...

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