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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by Flimm on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:34PM (#31851547)
I personally don't want to have to upload proof of identity to GitHub and a signed document swearing that I own the copyright to all the code I upload to GitHub, or proof that I coded it. We need to be careful what we wish for.
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by vorpalhex on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:12PM (#31853862)
Excerpt from the MIT license:

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

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