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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by tomrod on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:20PM (#27847170)
Further, what if I branched the code from something hosted outside of Github -- and failed to follow proper attribution?

This is a huge legal mess and its not being used to IMPROVE Github products and ops, it IS the Github product.

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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by kmeisthax on Thursday July 15, 2021 @05:51PM (#27850555)
It's actually fairly difficult to remove attribution from a Git repository. It's embedded in each commit. You'd have to rewrite the entire project history - something far different from just "branching" a repo.
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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by omegalulw on Friday July 16, 2021 @04:04AM (#27853966)
It's fairly easy to erase something like a header from all git history. It will update all commits for you.
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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by tomrod on Friday July 16, 2021 @08:30AM (#27855553)
I wasn't thinking of removing the history specifically, but yeah, this applies.
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