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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by dheera on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:55PM (#27847758)
Conceptually it's not particularly any different from distributing it to your web browser. They basically just turned Visual Studio into a fancy Github browser that has some editing features.
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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by inlined on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:09PM (#27847989)
I disagree. They’re the API host, so they’re the distributor as well as the user agent
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