[jrochkind1]

If Github hosts AGPL code, does that mean that github's own code must be AGPL? Obviously not. What's the difference?

There's no point to copilot without training data, some but not all of the training data was (A)GPL. There's no point to github without hosting code, some but not all of the code it hosts is A(GPL).

The code in either cases is data or content, it has not actually been incorporated into the copilot or github product.

[b3morales]

> If Github hosts AGPL code, does that mean that github's own code must be AGPL? Obviously not. What's the difference?

GitHub's TOS include granting them a separate license (i.e., not the GPL) to reproduce the GPL code in limited ways that are necessary for providing the hosting service. This means commonsense things like displaying the source text on a webpage, copying the data between servers, and so on.

[mhh__]

Code isn't to GitHub what training data is to this model, or at least even if you could argue that it is within a current framework it shouldn't be.