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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by blueflow on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:55AM (#31848388)
From MIT License;

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

I'm not confident Copilot will comply with this part of my code's license.

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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by simonw on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:58AM (#31848410)
It depends on the interpretation of "substantial portions". Classic challenge with legal documents.

Here's a discussion about that usage in the MIT license: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/2188

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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by jodrellblank on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:13AM (#31848612)
Me either, but that has little to do with burnout from other people making money from GPL licensed code.

(That a tool exists doesn't free one from responsibility for using it; CoPilot not citing original code and its license terms seems like it rules it out for anything beyond experimentation; that part is very arguable)

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