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Huggingface have scraped the entirety of Github. (huggingface.co)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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Would be a terrible shame if lots of people opted out.

If you are a EU citizen you might also want to write a complaint to privacy@huggingface.co because they are collecting your personally identifiable information in machine-readable form which they are distributing to third parties.

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[–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

It's not, but it may be violation of licenses. And also, if it has personal information on it, that's probably illegal under the GDPR.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    but it may be violation of licenses

    They excluded code with non-permissive licenses apparently:

    Each file is labelled permissive (at least one permissive license detected, no conflicting non-permissive license), no_license (no licenses detected, or only non-license legal texts such as CLAs), or non_permissive. The permissive allowlist follows the Blue Oak Council list plus licenses categorized as Permissive or Public Domain by ScanCode. Files classified as non_permissive are excluded from both released datasets.

    also, if it has personal information on it, that’s probably illegal under the GDPR.

    It's all public so I would be extremely surprised if that were the case.

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