Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: github's copilot feature

[William Hubbs]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 03:42:52PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 3:19 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > Of course someone could push everything back to github; however, there
> > is nothing we can do about that so that is completely moot for this
> > discussion.
>
> Well, what exactly does copilot have to do with anything?  If the
> concern is about copilot "misappropriating" Gentoo's code, then it
> seems we agree that moving off of Github won't change anything.
>
> The social contract talks about how "Gentoo will never depend upon
> [proprietary software]."  It doesn't mention anything about Gentoo not
> enabling it/etc.  In fact our policies allow proprietary software to
> be in our repository (obviously with restrictions on mirroring/etc).
> Some argue that this is enabling proprietary software, but even if so
> we're not breaking any promises.

Rich,

The question is around the GPL specifically.

the point is, are we as a project ok with copylot re-appropriating
our GPL code, possibly to proprietary projects, which could be argued
violates the GPL?

http://giveupgithub.org

If we are ok with this as a project, I guess that's fine, but I brought
it up to get thoughts about that angle.

William