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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by oefrha on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:11PM (#27726958)
Is Copilot trained on source available code? If not, then whatever restrictions you may want to apply with your source available code isn’t relevant. The debate is about copyleft.
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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by viktree on Sunday July 04, 2021 @12:33AM (#27727244)
The RMS function in Quake Source code exists in the copilot training set (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287) is covered under GPL which is source available (see https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/blob/master/c...)
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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by oefrha on Sunday July 04, 2021 @01:25AM (#27727431)
GPL is an open source license. Please read the ancestors to understand what’s being discussed here.

Edit: I was clearly making a distinction between open source (as in covered by an OSI-approved open source license) and only source-available, rather than treating source-available as a superset of open source.

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