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joeyh@sunbeam.city

see shy jo

Edited 9 days ago

Just gonna mention one time more that the ToS gives them a license to use your content in a way that is very apparent in 2025 includes training their LLM on it.

The only license I will ever provide to my free software is the license it's publically released under, so I will never push it to , and have not since the day they made this part of their ToS.

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Jonathan Corbet

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@joeyh If course, if you have released code as free software, chances are good that somebody else will put it onto GitHub even if you refuse to. I don't use it, but copies of my code end up there anyway.
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joeyh@sunbeam.city

see shy jo

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@corbet Indeed, but someone else putting my code on github does not have the ability to grant them any extra license to it

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Jonathan Corbet

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@joeyh Oh I agree, but somehow I don't think that GitHub is making that distinction.
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