What defines a popular OSS maintainer for free GitHub Copilot?

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Edit: It turns out I supposedly do get free Copilot after all - must have been a syncing hickup.I have write access on two >1k star repos, and multiple >200 star repos. Apparently that's enough to get free Copilot.I'd love to hear more examples of who does and does not qualify for a free subscription.This is how vaguely Github describes the criteria:>People who maintain popular open source projects receive a credit to have 12 months of GitHub Copilot access for free. A maintainer of a popular open source project is defined as someone who has write or admin access to one or more of the most popular open source projects on GitHub.

RobinL · Accepted Answer

I am lead author of an active 400+ star repo with 300k downloads a month on pypi, but don't get copilot free. The repo is hosted on my organisation's GitHub, not my personal one.
I am also author of an inactive 250+ star repo on my personal account.
I'd love to know what target I'd have to reach to qualify for free access!

croemer · Answer

See here for the FAQ: https://github.com/pricing#faq-copilot