@paysonwallach I agree with the points made but it leaves me at a loss for a solution. I will not use Github & I keep my works outside of Github, but there is nothing to stop MS from harvesting my works from softwareheritage.org and profitting from it. Normally It's sufficient to boycott, so by not using MS products/services I don't help MS profit. But #Copilot sidesteps my boycott.
@paysonwallach I'm not finding the link now, but an #openSource license has been drafted somewhere that bans a number of activities that go against human rights. It could be expanded to ban use by entities that go against human rights.
one thought I had was a new fair use law which literally replicated the GPL
something like,
you can use a much greater range of things under fair use *but* whenever you use something under fair use you forfeit exclusive rights and everyone else is entitled to use your thing under fair use
my initial thought was "you can't get enough support to remove copyright so you have to just gut it"
but I feel like this would scare microsoft fully as much as the gpl3.
I can't imagine them staring down the horror of microsoft code becoming freely usable by others and saying "that's okay, we can keep using copilot at microsoft"
I should maybe clarify that the things that would forfeit exclusive copyright and trigger copyleft would be more like "derivative works" than an article using one photo or something
this would threaten copilot AND legalise fanfiction
@Valenoern This needs “fair use” works to be fair-usable without creating a derivative work (e.g. you can publish and sell somebody else's fanfic – as opposed to their copyrighted original work).
I know you said “literally replicated the GPL”, but you didn't mention this part explicitly; I thought it was worth mentioning.
@paysonwallach Copilot enables an evil corporation to profit from my work. I wonder if a non-free software license might actually become more interesting now: the "No Evil" license, which discards FSF's freedom 0 (the freedom to use as you please). It permits only ethical uses. That kind of license could perhaps block #Copilot.