DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering [LWN.net]

DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Jun 24, 2022 11:01 UTC (Fri) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)
In reply to: DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering by kleptog
Parent article: DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

TDM is allowed for any purpose under EU law. Commercial entities have to let publishers of corpora opt out (W3C is working on a spec like robots.txt for this), while researchers and educators don't. The key detail is that you have to opt out of ALL data mining, not just from entities you don't like.

DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Jun 24, 2022 12:20 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

> The key detail is that you have to opt out of ALL data mining, not just from entities you don't like.

That's easily got round - opt out by default and grant people you DO like a licence. In other words, the default is "mining is permitted", and the law says you have to explicitly change THE DEFAULT if you don't like it. Pretty sensible, imho.

Cheers,
Wol

DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Jun 24, 2022 12:37 UTC (Fri) by bluca (subscriber, #118303) [Link]

Even if that holds (not a lawyer, can't say if 'workarounds' like that are likely to survive a court case or not), it means changing the license to explicitly go against the 'No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups' and/or 'No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor' principles, thus making it non-free