IT House reported on July 2 that Microsoft’s GitHub AI programming tool Copilot was officially launched after nearly a year of free testing, priced at US$10 per month or US$100 per year. This approach caused quite a bit of controversy and even caused controversy. Come the industry boycott.
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) , a non-profit organization focused on free and open source software (FOSS), said it has stopped using Microsoft's GitHub for project hosting and is urging other software developers to do the same.
In a blog post, SFC said the break with GitHub was due to the charges for the AI programming tool Copilot. The SFC said GitHub's decision to release a for-profit product derived from FOSS code was "unacceptable" for .
IT House learned that Copilot is based on OpenAI’s Codex and can recommend codes to developers while they are working. According to GitHub, Copilot was trained on "natural language text and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub."
SFC says Microsoft and GitHub failed to provide clarification:
About the copyright ramifications of training its AI systems on public code
Copilot Why it accepted training on FOSS code instead of copyrighted Windows code
Can you point out the training set code that comes with it? All software licenses and copyright holders.
SFC stated that while existing member projects will not be forced to migrate at this time, will no longer accept new member projects without long-term plans to migrate from GitHub .
