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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:59PM (#27684382)
Automatic refactoring could be useful for avoiding a lot of dumb legal disputes.

I say dumb because I am, perhaps chauvinistically, assuming that no brilliant algorithmic insights will be transferred via the AI copilot, only work that might have been conceptually hard to a beginner but feels routine to a day laborer.

Then again that assumption suggests there'd be nothing to sue over.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by Gh0stRAT on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:56PM (#27684697)
True, but that definitely wouldn't stop Oracle from suing over it anyway. (See the rangeCheck chapter of Oracle v Google [0])

Also, Oracle v Google opens the possibility of a fair-use defense in the event that Copilot does regurgitate a small snippet of code.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722514

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