I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot

Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by MontyCarloHall on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:50PM (#27724811)

Surprised I had to scroll so far to find this, given how copyleft and straight-up anti-IP so much of the open source community is.

I think a lot more people on this site (and in the FOSS community in general) would be on board with Copilot if it respected viral licenses, e.g. if it had a way of inferring that the code it was copying verbatim were GPL-3 and warned the user that including it in their project would require them to GPL-3 their project as well.

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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by ImprobableTruth on Saturday July 03, 2021 @05:15PM (#27724989)

But that's literally the issue. The only form of intellectual property that is being damaged by this is copyleft.

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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by pabs3 on Saturday July 03, 2021 @10:48PM (#27726883)

Permissive licenses have requirements too, mostly attribution.

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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by noobermin on Saturday July 03, 2021 @06:43PM (#27725590)

Honestly, that would fix every issue with it. The laundering of the license is the issue.

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