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by bmitc 1345 days ago
That is for people using Copilot. I’d like a setting that tells GitHub to not scan my code at all. And I am curious about that sneaking into the terms in between me signing up and paying and them taking code for free.

I have also never heard of “public code” being used in that way.
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leni536 1345 days ago
> I’d like a setting that tells GitHub to not scan my code at all.

What about people forking/mirroring your code? Or people merely contributing code? There is no one-to-one correspondence between copyright holders and Github users.

Copilot should just comply with the license, that's it.

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bmitc 1345 days ago
It seems they don't comply with licenses. And it's not possible to fork or mirror to private repositories.

It would be a lot less trouble for everyone if it was just a per repository setting.

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pferde 1345 days ago
A good first approximation of such a setting is to never publish on Github in the first place.

Of course, someone else can still upload your elsewhere-published code to GH. You cannot win.

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