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For now, no. It would be a polite way to mark my preference to opt out of such data mining. It's closer to the Ask BigTechs Not to Track option rather than a legal license. Technically, Apple's App Tracking Transparency does not ban all tracking activity; it never can.
LICENSE or COPYING.txt?Both are mainly written in human language and cannot provide granular scraping permissions depending on the collector.
Also, GitHub Copilot ignores LICENSE or COPYING.txt,
claiming we consented to Copilot using our codes for machine learning by signing up and pushing code to GitHub,
We may expand the LICENSE system to include the terms for machine learning use,
but that would even more edge case and chaotic licensing systems.
This question is still under debate. Opt-out should be the default if it requires a license, making such a license system meaningless. If it doesn't require a license, then which company would respect the license system, given that it is not legally binding?
robots.txt legally binding?No.
Even if you scrape the web prohibited under robots.txt, it is not against the law.
See HIQ LABS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LINKEDIN CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant..
robots.txt cannot make fair use illegal.
The goal of this Community Group is to facilitate TDM in Europe and elsewhere by specifying a simple and practical machine-readable solution capable of expressing the reservation of TDM rights. w3c/tdm-reservation-protocol: Repository of the Text and Data Mining Reservation Protocol Community Group
No. One could reasonably argue that AI is doing the same as humans, much better and more efficiently. However, that claim goes against the fundamentals of intellectual property. If any IP is legally protected, machine-generated code must also have the same level of awareness system to respect it and prevent any plagiarism. Otherwise, they must bear legal duties.
... by excluding all hacky codes and only opting for best-practice codes. If implemented correctly, it can work as an effective data sanitation system.
Special thanks to everyone in the discussion:
RFC: What if we could make "robots.txt", but for GitHub Copilot?
— cho.sh (@anaclumos) October 21, 2022
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