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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by mceachen on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:00PM (#31829064)
> licensing concerns

I dismissed these concerns before I had early access.

Then, _literally the first characters I typed_ after enabling the extension were `//`, and it autosuggested:

    // Copyright 2018 Google LLC
I immediately uninstalled it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mrm/status/1410658969803051012/ph...

Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by eat_lemons on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:49PM (#31838490)
Both on a moral and practical sense copilot is a licensing nightmare