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Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

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Post by vidyesh »

radicalriddler wrote: post #31
johnebgd wrote: post #27

Just in time for Netlify to discontinue support for private GitHub repositories for free plans. Good thing cloudflare still has free Cloudflare pages support for private GitHub pages.

Do you have a link to where they've said that, that really sucks, I've had a much smoother experience setting up pages with Netlify than Cloudflare.

Most people got confused with the wording in their recent policy change for the free plan.

They recently changed the policy for Organization-owned repos. The continuous deployment for organization-owned private repos is no longer allowed in the free plan.

But personal account's public and private repos are still part of the free plan.

Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

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Post by harperlee »

anvic wrote: post #51
Diti wrote: post #48

But still no way to opt-out from GitHub Copilot when using public repositories? I would have expected private profiles to give that option.

If you don't want people training models on your code then do not make it public.

You can make code public and still legally restrict its use (see: GPL).

Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

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Post by robin_reala »

harperlee wrote: post #53
anvic wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't want people training models on your code then do not make it public.

You can make code public and still legally restrict its use (see: GPL).

GPL doesn’t restrict you from using it as input to a model. It’s just that as the model is a derivative work, it also has to be released under the GPL.

Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

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Post by [deleted] »

d_tr wrote: post #47
cxr wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Widespread practices infect norms. For example, thanks to the norms fostered on GitHub, you can no longer expect the average programmer to file good bug reports or to just interact in an appropriate way with the bugtracker. We can't really talk about "wikis", either, without confusion about what a wiki even is—again, thanks to GitHub.

How can GitHub be at fault for people being lazy or lacking common sense when filing a bug report, or being rude?

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Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

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Post by jwilk »

bo0tzz wrote: post #44
pabs3 wrote: post #19

Hmm, I wonder if there is a way to turn off some of those things but not others.

This is what I would like too. I want my repos to be public, but my contribution activity to be hidden.

Making the profile private doesn't hide your public repositories.

Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

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Post by 0x20cowboy »

robin_reala wrote: post #56
harperlee wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can make code public and still legally restrict its use (see: GPL).

GPL doesn’t restrict you from using it as input to a model. It’s just that as the model is a derivative work, it also has to be released under the GPL.

I know this is the main question, but is it a derivative work? Does all the code I write need to be under the GPL because I once read some GPL code and learned from it?

Or does copilot not work like other ML projects and actually copies sections of code?

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