Re:GitHub Copilot
by marcan_42 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @03:36PM
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That's not how fair use works. It doesn't matter how unlikely it is, if Copilot one day decides to "suggest" a significant snippet of ckxd from a GPLed app, you'd better be planning to GPL your project.
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No, and this has been outlined in the past why that is not the case.
e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/61292/ and most likely only one opinion.
on the other hand, it would be interesting to learn about what the copyright implications are of
a) creating a utility like copilot (it is a software program) and contains a corpus based on copyrighted material (the database that has been trained)
b) using it to create code based on the corpus and resulting in software as a work under copyright.