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Any feedback, comments, or suggestions submitted by users to Tabnine are licensed to Tabnine on an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free basis with sublicensing rights, allowing Tabnine to use, reproduce, sell, and incorporate that feedback without attribution or compensation.
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This provision establishes that submitted feedback becomes permanently and irrevocably licensed to Tabnine for any use across any media, including sublicensing to third parties, without any obligation to reference the source or provide compensation. Enterprise users should assess whether submitted feedback could include proprietary insights or technical information subject to internal IP policies.
This clause establishes that any comments or suggestions a user provides to Tabnine are covered by an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license that includes Tabnine's right to sublicense, sell, or otherwise use that feedback in any manner and through any media, without attribution to the user.
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"However, should you provide Tabnine with comments or suggestions for the modification, correction, improvement or enhancement of the Services and/or any of the Services′ Materials, then, subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms, you hereby grant Tabnine a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license, including the right to sublicense, to use and disclose such comments and suggestions in any manner Tabnine chooses and to display, perform, copy, have copied, make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, and otherwise dispose of Tabnine′s and its sublicensees′ products and content embodying such comments or suggestions in any manner and via any media Tabnine chooses, but without reference to the source of such comments or suggestions.Excerpt from Tabnine's Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This clause does not directly engage data protection law as it applies to feedback rather than personal data, though if feedback includes personal data, GDPR processing obligations would apply independently. Intellectual property law in the user's jurisdiction governs whether submitted feedback constitutes protectable IP and whether this license is enforceable as written. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. For enterprise customers, this clause creates a risk that developer feedback submitted to Tabnine could be used by Tabnine in any manner, including product development, marketing materials, or sublicensed outputs, without attribution or compensation. Enterprise IP policies often restrict employees from granting such broad licenses to third parties without authorization. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: No specific geographic carve-outs are noted in this clause. EU-based users should note that GDPR protections apply to any personal data within feedback, but the IP license itself is not constrained by GDPR. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Procurement and legal teams should flag this clause as a potential conflict with corporate IP ownership policies. Enterprise agreements may be negotiable to narrow the scope of this license or exclude proprietary technical feedback. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Organizations should assess whether their acceptable use and IP ownership policies specifically address what developers may submit as feedback to AI coding tools, and whether updates to those policies are warranted prior to broad organizational deployment of Tabnine.
This provision establishes that submitted feedback becomes permanently and irrevocably licensed to Tabnine for any use across any media, including sublicensing to third parties, without any obligation to reference the source or provide compensation. Enterprise users should assess whether submitted feedback could include proprietary insights or technical information subject to internal IP policies.
This clause establishes that any comments or suggestions a user provides to Tabnine are covered by an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license that includes Tabnine's right to sublicense, sell, or otherwise use that feedback in any manner and through any media, without attribution to the user.
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