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 6CFE7158094 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:33:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BF14E0876; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C39D0E0876 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:33:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (nullmailer pid 27838 invoked by uid 1000); Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:33:13 -0000 Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:33:13 -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="37uDfLat+RUrQVRT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 874692b1-3df2-4212-8464-3fbf286eb8f8 X-Archives-Hash: 7679ca878881d0fac98fa19c39a9ac36 --37uDfLat+RUrQVRT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 03:42:52PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 3:19 PM William Hubbs 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. >=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. 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 --37uDfLat+RUrQVRT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQTVeuxEZo4uUHOkQAluVBb0MMRlOAUCYtRyAwAKCRBuVBb0MMRl OLwtAJsHBssCzVpTw1tFt6GSTahQtfYl5QCgoUJO9pkQNiCGjo02nQsXmtNQIao= =4q/N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --37uDfLat+RUrQVRT--