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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by dwheeler on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:59PM (#27690822)
It's not just the GPL. Almost all open source software licenses require attribution; without that attribution, any copy is a license violation.

Whether or not the result is a license violation is tricky legal question. As always, IANAL.

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by tyingq on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:21PM (#27694133)
I did say "for example".
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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by dwheeler on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:17PM (#27716997)
You certainly did! But there are a lot of people who think "OSS license means there are no requirements" and think it's okay to do things like copy without attribution when the license requires attributions. I know you didn't say anything like that either, but some others might think it.

It seems to me an important question is, "is this like a human who learns from examples, or is this really a derivative work in the copyright sense?".I'm not sure how to answer that. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know if many lawyers can answer that question either!

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Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? by BlueTemplar on Sunday July 04, 2021 @11:04AM (#27730170)
Neither :

https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/1481/

Copilot isn't human and therefore what it does isn't a "work".

The usual issues still apply to users of Copilot - unwitting violations of license terms of the code it was trained on (like non-attribution) are still violations.

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