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There's an argument to be made that a neural net learning from your proprietary "source available" code isn't violating copyright. It's not an opinion I would trust the judge to take over necessarily (they might, or not) and hinge my business on, but it's an opinion one can have, so I don't know that github violated any licenses here as afaik there weren't any at the time which specifically stated that <insert definition which can tell what-we-call-AI training and human training apart> is not permitted. At least not until you successfully sue them for it in some jurisdiction.



There have been quite a few cases of the neural nets spitting out the code they've been trained on verbatim, including comments IIRC. They're not just "learning" (if they're "learning" at all).




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