I find it hard to believe that an organisation with GitHub's expertise and resources haven't analysed (and got comfortable with) the legal issues associated with the use of GPL / AGPL software to train CoPilot - so the lack of public comment on this is surprising.
Edit: Thanks to those who have pointed out that Nat Friedman has publicly commented on this (on HN!). My mistake.
>In terms of the permissibility of training on public code, the jurisprudence here – broadly relied upon by the machine learning community – is that training ML models is fair use.
Edit: Thanks to those who have pointed out that Nat Friedman has publicly commented on this (on HN!). My mistake.
>In terms of the permissibility of training on public code, the jurisprudence here – broadly relied upon by the machine learning community – is that training ML models is fair use.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27677177