Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by anonymousab on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:09AM (#29683865)

Unless copilot serves as a legally effective "laundering" of gpl code. Which sounds silly, but we're now in a situation where that outcome is super desirable to GitHub/Microsoft.

Another potential outcome is that so many projects could now end up unknowingly using gpl code that enforcement becomes an impractical whack-a-mole, far more so than today. Being told to rework or relicense your project because of copiloted gpl code could easily end up with hobbyists wholesale begrudging the gpl license rather than copilot itself.

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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by fault1 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:37AM (#29684115)

> Unless copilot serves as a legally effective "laundering" of gpl code.

It's quite interesting how it seems to have come full circle, at least according to this stackoverflow comment about Stallman releasing a paper in 1992 on how to effectively launder AT&T code via textual changes (I have no idea if he did, I just remembered the comment): https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/591221

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