Saying Goodbye to GitHub
I&#x27;m gonna get hated on for this, but I don&#x27;t think &quot;give back&quot; is an open source concept.<p>I&#x27;m not aware of any Open Source license,or Free license for that matter,that has a give-back clause. Source code is available to -users- ,not prior-authors.<p>Some Open Source licenses can be used in proprietary code, (MIT, BSD etc) with little more than simple attribution.<p>Those developers chose that license for a reason, and I&#x27;ve got no problem with commercial entities using that code.<p>There is a valid argument to be made about the training of models on GPL code. (Argument in the sense that there&#x27;s two sides to the coin.) On the one hand we happily train humans on GPL code. Those humans can then write their own functions,but for trivial functions they&#x27;re gonna look a lot like GPL Source.<p>If the AI is regurgitating GPL code as-is, then that&#x27;s a problem- not dissimilar to a student or employee regurgitating the same code.<p>But this argument is about Free software licenses,not really (most?) Open Source licenses.<p>Either way OSS&#x2F;Free is not about &quot;giving back&quot;,its about giving forward.<p>In the specific case here of co-pilot making money,I&#x27;d say
A) you&#x27;re allowed to make money from Free&#x2F;OSS code. B) no one is forcing you to use this feature.