"In late June 2026, GitHub began promulgating disinformation regarding the California AI Transparency Act (and amendments proposed in CA SB 1000). This behavior is unconscionable, as GitHub attempts to convince the FOSS community that the California act is harmful to FOSS licensing. This escalation of bad behavior simply should not be tolerated by anyone who cares about software freedom."
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/jul/03/github-gen-ai-california-22757-ok-for-foss-license/
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Software Freedom ConservancyGitHub & other LLM-gen-AI Companies Urge You to Misdirect California Legislature on FOSS Licensing!Another Reason to Give Up GitHub!Last week, Microsoft's GitHub1 announced they'd joined a coalition of other
LLM-gen-AI
for-profit entities who oppose updates to the California Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act (“Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757”). In
their statement, GitHub mistakenly claims
that the licensing termination requirements of §22757 run contrary to Free and Open
Source Software