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If you're major concern is copilot : Microsoft sucking up your codebase, you better not be producing open source applications anywhere.

Not a single open source license will protect you. (And it won't help even if they add an exclusion clause for AI).

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Hostile forges will help though, unless the forge gets big enough.

Scrapers (SEO bots included) tend to only have a handful of "corner cases" built for navigating sites - if your code forge is actively trying to prevent scraping it could help prevent quite a lot.

Your choices remain important, even if it's not foolproof.

codeberg serves a poisoned AI page when the detection is triggered

If your only concern is copilot, this is accurate.

For Micrsoft-competitive, closed source projects, SourceHub is a much better choice than GitHub.

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