Direct answers on licensing code to AI labs
What labs buy, what disqualifies a repository, and what happens to code you never made public.
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Can you license private repositories?
Why private repositories are the licensable kind, what private has to mean, and what actually happens to the code.
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Is my private code used to train AI?
What actually happens to private repositories, which settings matter, and how deliberate licensing differs from quiet collection.
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What do AI labs pay for code?
What licensing source code to AI labs actually pays, why git history is priced separately, and what a real repository comes to.
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What disqualifies a repository?
The four things that rule a repository out completely, and the much longer list of things that only reduce what it is worth.
You have repos you will never open again.
Private, finished, owned by you, and doing nothing.
That is the code labs pay to license. Non-exclusively, so you keep it.