Github gives Copilot Pro to open source maintainers but they don't really tell you what the requirements are.
I have it and I just get a notification every month that it's been renewed and I never even applied for it.
I assume it's a combination of activity on github and popularity of your repositories.
replyI work for a commercial open source company, working on the open source product. I applied for it way back in the day and got it, and i still get the emails every month saying that they renewed my free grant.
replyThis is all despite the company also paying for Github Copilot.
I mean, there's also the whole GitHub free tier. It used to only be for public repos, so mostly OSS plus "shared source", but now they allow it for private as well. But it still costs them money to host your code and provide CI minutes.
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