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I have removed all my GitHub repos

I have removed all my GitHub repos

Posted Jul 15, 2021 20:36 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: I have removed all my GitHub repos by ejr
Parent article: GitHub is my copilot

> If it's your own server, then yes you can.

The point is that they don't have to source it from your server directly. It is open source, nothing is stopping them from using a proxy to clone it.


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I have removed all my GitHub repos

Posted Jul 15, 2021 20:39 UTC (Thu) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]

That's the choice. Release something for others to use as they please, or do not.

That "copilot" is bringing twenty-year-old security flaws back is another aspect. ML is only as good as its training data.

I have removed all my GitHub repos

Posted Jul 15, 2021 20:55 UTC (Thu) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link] (3 responses)

Or downloading it from any number of mirrors that you might or might not know about.

Is your code in Debian, or any other distro? The Internet Archive? What about the randoms on /r/datahoarders, do you think any of them made a copy?

There's no such thing as "It's public except for person X." If you put it on the internet, then anyone who wants to see it can probably get a copy by some means or another. Ordinarily, you would use copyright law to combat such unauthorized copying, but FOSS licenses are explicitly designed to allow and even encourage it.

I have removed all my GitHub repos

Posted Jul 16, 2021 1:09 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (1 responses)

That's true; I can't prevent GitHub from slurping my code into its ML system. But I can express my disagreement with it, and I can stop using GitHub to ever so slightly reduce the network effect that makes it attractive in the first place.

I have removed all my GitHub repos

Posted Jul 19, 2021 21:53 UTC (Mon) by jbicha (subscriber, #75043) [Link]

They probably already fed all your repos into copilot before you removed them.

I have removed all my GitHub repos

Posted Jul 16, 2021 15:19 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

>There's no such thing as "It's public except for person X.

Yes there is: the version 3 of the GPL.

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