Tim Makarios on Nostr: I got a bunch of emails from GitHub telling me I have free access to Copilot, but ...

I got a bunch of emails from GitHub telling me I have free access to Copilot, but buried in the middle of the last paragraph, it says "GitHub and affiliates may use your data for product improvement", which makes me wonder if the email was really just cover for "informing" me that they're going to make derivative works from my code, and I'm now giving them a licence without any copyleft conditions, regardless of what licence is specifically applied to the code. But I don't know.

After that, it says "You can adjust both data use and public matching code suggestion settings in your Copilot Settings", but I can't find anything about data use when I follow the link they provide. There's a button to "Start using Copilot Free"; do I have to click that before I can opt out of whatever they mean by "data use"? Can I opt out at all? Do I need to opt out if I don't start using Copilot at all?

Does anyone know what's going on?

#Copilot #GitHub