Repositories in my Github account will be migrated to Codeberg in the coming months (May - June 2024). All my development on Github will cease. Finally the repositories will be deleted.
Rationale: I take offence at Github's terms of service that (IMHO underhandedly) take out a right for them to train their (closed source) AI products on my GPL licensed source. See
- ToS, 4. License Grant to us
- About GitHub Copilot Individual, specifically "(...) GitHub Copilot is trained on all languages that appear in public repositories. (...)".
Personally I hold the opinion that trained LLMs / neural networks / whatever are derived works of the training material they ingest.
I will (it seems) have a hard time enforcing the GPL based on my reading, but this doesn't make the act of appropriating the work of creators intended for the allmende less morally reprehensible. Might does not make right.
I am done with Github (and Gitlab, for the same reason).