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

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 03:33:13PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> 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@gentoo.org> 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?

heh, that was a typo, s/copylot/copilot/, but I guess it fits; that's
what it does. ;-)

William

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