Software Freedom Conservancy: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

Posted Jul 1, 2022 15:05 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Software Freedom Conservancy: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! by bluca
Parent article: Software Freedom Conservancy: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

In that case, does that mean copilot is over-reaching itself? Okay, in the EU data is covered differently from text, but the exception appears to be for DOING the mining.

Which search engines like Google will love. It (and I'm quite happy with this) makes it legal for them to have huge search databases.

But there's a very big difference between using that mined data to direct people back to the original source document, and outputting something based on that source (essentially creating a derived document) to be passed on to a third party without the first party knowing anything about it.

Maybe the grounds for feeling that way have changed, but I still feel that actually *using* the output from Copilot for pretty much anything other than study is a very dangerous occupation, and maybe even using it for study ...

Cheers,
Wol