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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Where does AI training data come from?
The four sources of AI training data, why synthetic data fails for code, why public code is a biased sample, and what the shift to licensing means for owners.
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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.
Earn $500+ on every repo you never open.
Private, finished, owned by you: $500+ each to AI labs.
Non-exclusive, so you keep the code and are paid again on every re-license.