Interestingly, the same companies who made the paid service by analyzing all of that open-source code would never, ever consider open-sourcing the code for that service.
> if you don't want people to learn off your code
"Learn" is a strange verb to use here. No one at Microsoft or OpenAI was scraping all of GitHub so that they could learn. They took people's licensed works, fed it into a very sophisticated copy-paste machine, and started making money off of it.
> just don't share it!
It's almost like licenses and copyright exist to protect the rights of their holders or something.
The entire point of licenses is to be able to share your work in a way that respects your wishes. "Just don't share it" is completely non-productive.
> if you don't want people to learn off your code
"Learn" is a strange verb to use here. No one at Microsoft or OpenAI was scraping all of GitHub so that they could learn. They took people's licensed works, fed it into a very sophisticated copy-paste machine, and started making money off of it.
> just don't share it!
It's almost like licenses and copyright exist to protect the rights of their holders or something.
The entire point of licenses is to be able to share your work in a way that respects your wishes. "Just don't share it" is completely non-productive.