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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by c01n on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:04AM (#31848484)
> GPL: "Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish)".

Yes but if I use copilot in a private codebase how sure am I that it has not copied GPL code.

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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by 8organicbits on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:23AM (#31848729)
I think the risk is higher, but it's always been possible one of the developers would copy GPL code. There are tools that check your code to see if any GPL code exists. I haven't used them, but I suppose you could audit with those.
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