Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot
by mattwad on Monday July 12, 2021 @10:50AM
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I've been using it and that's 100% correct. If it suggests more than a few lines, i might as well do it myself. However, it has been an awesome Intellisense tool for one-liners.. it can write out the rest of a comment or a simple map/filter method just fine. I don't think it will ever go further than that, but nor does it need to.
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Be sure it doesn't generate any GPL licensed code down to the size of a single letter, to be safe. The reaction to GPL inspired snippet generation has been more fierce than I could have imagined, even though usable snippets are so short.
You can't license a code snippet. You can only copyright/license a complete work, as in a complete app or library. Software patterns might work differently though!?
Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot
by dec0dedab0de on Monday July 12, 2021 @05:28PM
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Any portion of a work has a copyright the moment there is a tangible copy.
There is a uniqueness requirement, but it has nothing to do with length. A unique one liner would have a copyright.
You can not take the source code of an app, change a few lines, and then call it your own. You can however make your own app by stealing a few lines of code here and there... funny enough many companies write code so that all functions depend on all other functions making it impossible to reuse any parts of the code in another app (but i think that is not deliberate)