Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t...
by dathinab on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:33PM
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No you are not, guaranteed (I think, not a lawyer).
At least from a copyright point of few.
TL;DR: Having right, and having a easy defense in a law suite are not the same.
BUT separating it makes defending any law-suite against them because of copyright and patent law much easier. It also prevents any employee from "copying GPL(or similar) code verbatim from memory"(1) (or even worse the clipboard) sure the employee "should" not do it but by separating them you can be more sure they don't, and in turn makes it easier to defent in curt especially wrt. "independent creation".
There is also patent law shenanigans.
(1): Which is what GitHub Copilot is sometimes doing IMHO.
At least from a copyright point of few.
TL;DR: Having right, and having a easy defense in a law suite are not the same.
BUT separating it makes defending any law-suite against them because of copyright and patent law much easier. It also prevents any employee from "copying GPL(or similar) code verbatim from memory"(1) (or even worse the clipboard) sure the employee "should" not do it but by separating them you can be more sure they don't, and in turn makes it easier to defent in curt especially wrt. "independent creation".
There is also patent law shenanigans.
(1): Which is what GitHub Copilot is sometimes doing IMHO.