Copilot sells code other people wrote

Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by dekhn on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:33AM (#31848880)

Copyleft isn't really a good example. Let's talk about copyright. That fragment of code is not copyrightable on its own. Too small, too trivial.

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by bayindirh on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:38AM (#31848948)

Let's say I have 25 line function which does something novel and can be published as research (which I did, BTW, no joke), and I opened its reference implementation with AGPLv3+.

Is it again too trivial?

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by drexlspivey on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:55AM (#31849165)

is 25 lines the limit then? do you count comments? can I codegolf a few lines to get below the limit?

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by bayindirh on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:59AM (#31849220)

> is 25 lines the limit then?

I don't know. That's my function's length.

> do you count comments?

No comments, no blank lines.

> can I codegolf a few lines to get below the limit?

You bet. But, if you copy my reference implementation, you need to get the license as well.

However, the research is on the open. Read it, implement it. That's no problem.

But, CoPilot is not reading my paper. It's reproducing my function verbatim, which is under a license which has share-alike mechanics.

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