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Re:GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It by qayxc on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:38AM (#27784785)
Copyright is different from licensing and is far more complicated that most people think.

> Why take a risk for some glorified text snippets?

Name an example where that was actually an issue. And I'm talking explicitly about single functions and even single lines of code.

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Re:GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It by bhaak on Thursday July 15, 2021 @04:01PM (#27849406)
That's not how lawyers think.

Microsoft's programmers were (are?) not allowed to read GPL code to rule out any doubt that they might be copy GPL code into the codebase, even if only unconsciously.

Lawyers are not just for suing they are also for covering your ass so there is no way you could lose if you are getting sued.

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