GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?

Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by VMtest on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:47AM (#27687807)

gonna develop my own linux-like kernel soon, with my own AI model trained on public repositories

wanna see the source code of my AI model? oh, it's closed source

it's just coincidence that nearly 100% of my future linux-like kernel code looks the same as linux the kernel, bear in mind that my closed-source AI model takes inspiration from GitHub Copilot, there is no way that it will copy any source code

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by phendrenad2 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:55AM (#27689283)

Nothing is closed-source to the courts.

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by cwkoss on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:23PM (#27695409)

It may be possible to use closed source code during training and delete it, leaving just a black box model that is hard to prove was derived from that closed source code.

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by throwaway3699 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:14AM (#27688070)

What's the point? Linux is already open under GPL 2.

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by Deathmax on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:19AM (#27688130)

You get to make changes without having to respect the GPL and thus no longer obligated to provide those changes to your end users, as you have effectively laundered the kernel source code by passing it through an "AI" and get to relicense the end result.

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by VMtest on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:39AM (#27688376)

my linux-like kernel will be MIT license though

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by jackbeck on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:18AM (#27688122)

He mentioned that the Linux-like kernel will be closed source which violates GPL

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by Ygg2 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:06AM (#27688704)

Does it, if code was written by a bot that trained on Linux kernel?

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by pjerem on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:28AM (#27688976)

You know, that's precisely what the topic here is about.

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by sp332 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:17PM (#27690338)

Probably. Copyright applies to derivative works.

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by visarga on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:05PM (#27690187)

Oh, you're so witty, have you heard of content hashing?

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