LGPLd software

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Cristian Barbarosie <cristian.barbarosie at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello everybody,
> I guess a software licensed under LGPL (not GPL) has no grounds to oppose
> GitHub's use of its code in Copilot. Am I right ?
> In my specific case, I am talking about
> https://github.com/cristian-barbarosie/manifem
> Thank you
> Cristian
>
>>
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Disclaimer:  I am not a lawyer.

No, you should not put your software on GitHub.  Your software is
licensed under LGPL, a copyleft license.  Although it allows other
softwares to dynamic link to the library, but it doesn't allow to take
the library's source code and apply whatever license to it.

Even if your software was under Expat license (aka MIT license), it is
good to stay away from GitHub.  Because Copilot takes your work, gives
it to it's customers and saying that it's the work of their customers
(not yours)!  As far as I know, it's copyright violation.

As far as I know, the only thing that Copilot can legally learn from is
public domain code.  But I think we should not host a single character
of code on GitHub, for our own sake.

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