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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by lbriner on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:10AM (#31848565)
This is not the same at all. An equivalent would be if Steven King read a lot of other authors and then copied parts of their works into his own books for profit, even if they were changed slightly.
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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by WithinReason on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:26AM (#31848782)
How large does the section has to be? A single sentence? Or two? You can currently set Copilot to not include suggestions where more than 150 characters appear in the training set.
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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by cute_boi on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:21AM (#31849496)
It depends upon a judge. A letter or word doesn't carry that much meaning. A value is created when something meaningful is made. If copilot gives code from linux kernel, I think it should follow GPL license.

There are reasons why one opensource project(forgot the name probably redox os) bans people from contributing if they have read pirated source code?

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