Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot

Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by progbits on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:16PM (#27848870)

I've been wondering the same though found basically no discussion on this topic.

Let's ignore whether GPL or whatever license allows GitHub to do this - let the lawyers sort this out. Instead we should focus on whether it is possible to legally prevent such behavior via license.

In other words, where is my GPLv4 with anti-ml clause?

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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by Zambyte on Thursday July 15, 2021 @11:22PM (#27852758)

I personally hope that a new GPL would not be anti-ml. It's a very cool and interesting technology imo. I think a new GPL should be explicit and say that code produced my a machine learning algorithm is trained on GPLv4 code should remain under GPLv4 or a compatible license.

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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by EamonnMR on Friday July 16, 2021 @10:19AM (#27856461)

That would have the same effect, but is slightly nicer.

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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by EamonnMR on Thursday July 15, 2021 @04:42PM (#27849882)

FSF and SFC and OSI if you're listening, this would be very nice.

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