News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments. Parent comment

Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by maclockard on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:48PM (#27715261)
If you publish the code anywhere, potentially. You could be (unknowingly) violating the original license if the code was copied verbatim from another source.

How much of a concern this is depends heavily on what the original source was.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by lolinder on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:51PM (#27715992)
And the problem with copilot is that you have no way of knowing. If it changes even a little bit of the code, it's basically ungoogleable but still potentially in violation.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by kevin_thibedeau on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:23PM (#27717664)
Distributing binaries to third parties is enough to trigger a license violation. For internal corporate tools, it would be less of an issue as "distribution" hasn't happened.
[ Parent | on HN ]