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Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your code - jkl - 03-11-2022
Good news, everyone:
Quote:Today, we’ve filed a class-action lawsuit in US federal court in San Francisco, CA on behalf of a proposed class of possibly millions of GitHub users. (...) By training their AI systems on public GitHub repositories (though based on their public statements, possibly much more) we contend that the defendants have violated the legal rights of a vast number of creators who posted code or other work under certain open-source licenses on GitHub.
Yeah!
RE: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your code - ckester - 03-11-2022
Expanding jkl's quotation to highlight the crux of the complaint (emphasis added):
Quote: (...) Which licenses? A set of 11 popular open-source licenses that all require attribution of the author’s name and copyright, including the MIT license, the GPL, and the Apache license. (These are enumerated in the appendix to the complaint.)
This is indeed good news. Many open-source authors have freely shared their code, asking nothing in return but recognition of their authorship. To deny them even that is despicable.
RE: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your code - jkl - 03-11-2022
It will also be an interesting case considering the future of "Fair Use" which doesn't exist in wide parts of the world, but Microsoft GitHub's lawyers claim that (e.g.) my code on GitHub is freely accessible as long as it is only "remixed", or something.
Looking forward to them losing.