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Re:Kite launches line-of-code completions, goes cloudless, s... by Drdrdrq on Monday January 28, 2019 @02:54PM (#19020501)
Interesting - is the model that learns from (semantically indexed) code bound by its license? One could argue it is derivative work.
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Re:Kite launches line-of-code completions, goes cloudless, s... by adamsmith on Monday January 28, 2019 @10:21PM (#19023434)
Interesting question. I’m not a lawyer, but I presume it’s derivative enough not to be copyrighted. For example, one could argue Google’s giant n-gram corpus is derived from many copyrighted webpages.
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