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[โ€“] nihilomaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You could argue that since it's publicly available and this repo only archives it that... I don't know man Copyright law is confusing.

[โ€“] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I think you can get some kind of exemption for archival purposes. I know that the Internet Archive has one. But I also know that ultimately Microsoft is responsible for the data hosted on Github, and Microsoft's interest is to not even risk getting sued.