A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot

Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot by ghaff on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:02PM (#27794295)

First of all, none of this matters if the resulting code isn't distributed in some manner. For an internal app, for example, none of this matters.

Secondly, it's pretty much obvious that fairly trivial (and, frankly, probably not so trivial) code snippets are reused/reworked from various sources all the time. This makes it hard for me to see Copilot as this new and existentially harmful thing.

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Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot by guitarbill on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:17PM (#27794427)

People use different licences, because they want different things, e.g. attribution, or that improvements be contributed back, or nothing.

It is harmful to open-source, because if these wishes are not respected, people will stop contributing and stop open-sourcing things.

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Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot by marcodiego on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:47PM (#27794679)

For the GPL it matters even if it is distributed in binary form. For AGPL it matters if you make a service available.

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Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot by visarga on Saturday July 10, 2021 @02:05PM (#27795246)

AGPL projects will benefit from these huge coding models like everyone. This puts all code in an open position.

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