From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3273F158094 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:45:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 384F7E0ED6; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BD5CE0ED6 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (nullmailer pid 27931 invoked by uid 1000); Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:45:30 -0000 Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:45:30 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: github's copilot feature Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uCsah8219fKP7TFx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: ecbd7a00-2e5c-47b2-81b3-fa81764aebb3 X-Archives-Hash: 2d7561b17e8136c0a723eaed796a4ada --uCsah8219fKP7TFx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 wro= te: > > > > > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > Rich, >=20 > The question is around the GPL specifically. >=20 > 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 --uCsah8219fKP7TFx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQTVeuxEZo4uUHOkQAluVBb0MMRlOAUCYtR05AAKCRBuVBb0MMRl OFgYAJ4sJyfcrV0r5kippJwckNYFZaVOdgCcCv5t7UN7+p1nNNWlFfm/nPjiYYI= =QCpl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uCsah8219fKP7TFx--