[jimbokun]

There are a lot of existing legal precedents about what constitutes fair use vs infringement. This isn’t a new question.

[chii]

https://www.alrc.gov.au/publication/copyright-and-the-digita...

so if your work is transformative, it can be exempt as fair use. But i'm not sure what degree counts as transformative - i do think that training an AI model with millions of repos worth of code is transformative.