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<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Publication of the FSF-funded white papers on questions around Copilot</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body> <center> <table border=0 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=0 bgcolor="#000000"> <tr><td><table border=0 bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <tr><td><big><b>libreplanet-discuss</b></big></td></tr></table></tr></table> <div class="nowrap"> <small>[<a href="../" >Top</a>][<a href="/archive/html">All Lists</a>]</small> </div> <form method="get" action="/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi"> <input type="text" name="query" size="30"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search"> <input type="hidden" name="idxname" value="libreplanet-discuss"> <a href="/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?idxname=libreplanet-discuss">Advanced</a> </form> </center>     <hr> [<a href="msg00065.html">Date Prev</a>][<a href="msg00067.html">Date Next</a>][<a href="msg00064.html">Thread Prev</a>][<a href="msg00068.html">Thread Next</a>][<a href="index.html#00066">Date Index</a>][<a href="threads.html#00066">Thread Index</a>]    <h2>Publication of the FSF-funded white papers on questions around Copilot</h2> <hr> <table border=0> <tbody> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"> <b>From</b>: </td> <td align="left"> Devin Ulibarri</td> </tr>   <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"> <b>Subject</b>: </td> <td align="left"> Publication of the FSF-funded white papers on questions around Copilot</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"> <b>Date</b>: </td> <td align="left"> Fri, 25 Feb 2022 07:37:07 -0500</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>   <hr>   <pre>Hi All, Yesterday, the FSF published the white papers on GitHub's so-called "Copilot". I encourage you to read the announcement and the papers, if you are interested. <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white-papers-on-questions-around-copilot">https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white-papers-on-questions-around-copilot</a> Also, Craig Topham, the Copyright & Licensing Associate, really wants the community to discuss the implications that papers such as these lay bare, and he suggested libreplanet-discuss as one of those places. I hope we can discuss the papers here in the coming weeks and months, and come up with an action plan. I read the papers. Before reading the papers, I did not know what Copilot was -- or even if such a thing existed -- but, after reading the papers, I am persuaded that projects such as these pose a real threat to free software, and copyleft in particular. Also, if you come up with a good alternative name for "Copilot", please share. Mine would be "Fauxpilot". Enjoy, and please share the word! Best, Devin -- Devin Ulibarri // Outreach & Communications Coordinator Free Software Foundation Join the FSF and help us defend software freedom: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://my.fsf.org/">https://my.fsf.org/</a> US government employee? Use CFC charity code 63210 to support us through the Combined Federal Campaign. <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cfcgiving.opm.gov/">https://cfcgiving.opm.gov/</a> GPG Key: 2E0E CE75 F816 2B40 7D66 6767 8797 38E6 D644 0D57 What's GPG? 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