There's a fundamental problem
For the SFC, the break with GitHub was precipitated by the general availability of GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant tool. GitHub's decision to release a for-profit product derived from FOSS code, the SFC said, is "too much to bear."
But how is moving away from GitHub going to help, if you still publish your work as open source on some other platform? Or even just as source tarballs? Microsoft will simply scrape that instead.
The only solution I can see is *more restrictive* FOSS licences. Normally these don't put limits on who can use the software, or what you can use it for. Such conditions are explicitly forbidden in the Open Source Definition.
It seems we'll need new licenses that forbid specific uses - such as embedding in code-generation systems or for training AI models.
Even then, it will be extremely hard to prove that your code was used to train an AI, short of whistleblowers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
