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Discussion on: Avoiding accidental open-source laundering with GitHub Copilot

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geraldew

Unsurprisingly GitHub considers themselves to be good judges about where the boundaries of software freedom infringement lies. Others disagree, so I'd recommend seeing what some of those other parties say.

The Software Freedom Conservancy has recently updated its view, which you can see here

I would merely point out the obvious, that while pre-purchase GitHub was putting out some Open Source software, GitHub was and remains a closed source proprietary product and service.

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Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen

It would be great if GitHub released an open-source core.

GitHub Actions is a rapidly growing ecosystem of open-source automation. I expect we will see more like this from GitHub.