[Discuss] GitHub...

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Rick Moen via Discuss wrote on 2022-06-27 02:34:

> A different perspective is that it's a slightly pushy proprietary 
> software business, based in San Francisco and lately owned by 
> Microsoft Corporation, that somehow conned a lot of people into 
> confusing it with git, the (backing, in GitHub, Inc.'s case) data 
> store.


And this opinion has been in the news recently, with the Software
Freedom Conservancy (SFC) recommending people leave GitHub.


https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/software_freedom_conservancy_quits_github/

> we must urge all FOSS developers to leave GitHub as soon as they 
> can.


> we will no longer accept new member projects that do not have a 
> long-term plan to migrate away from GitHub



The heart of the issue:

> Microsoft and GitHub have failed to provide answers about the 
> copyright ramifications of training its AI system on public code, 
> about why Copilot was trained on FOSS code but not copyrighted 
> Windows code, and whether the company can specify all the software 
> licenses and copyright holders attached to code used in the training
>  data set.