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It is still trained on open source code on GitHub. These code communities seemingly have no way to opt out of their free (libre) contributions being used as training data, nor does the resulting code generation contribute anything back to those communities. It is a form of license stripping. That's just one issue.
Just because your inference running locally doesn't use much electricity doesn't mean you've sidestepped all of the other ethical issues surrounding LLMs.
It is not trained on open source code on Github.
But I can use it to analyze a datasheet and generate a library for an obscure module that I can then upload to Github and contribute to the community.
Apertus is most certainly trained on source code hosted on GitHub. It is laid out here in their technical report:
https://github.com/swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report
It uses a large dataset called TheStack, among others.