Aisha M.Validated Reviewer
Business Analyst · Healthcare · 1,000+ employees
4.5
July 13, 2026
“The licence provenance argument won our legal review”
Used daily for 1–2 years
Our counsel’s objection to AI coding tools was never security, it was whether copyleft code could end up in our proprietary product. Tabnine training only on permissively licensed repositories is a checkable answer to that. It is the reason we have any AI tooling at all.
Pros
Model provenance is documented and verifiable. Governance controls are mature. Connects to our self-managed GitLab.
Cons
Cost is hard to defend against $10 Copilot seats when you are not the one explaining it to legal.
Problems it solves
Removed the IP contamination objection that had blocked adoption for a year.