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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by JoshTriplett on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:08PM (#31853800)
You're welcome to use a "do whatever you want" license on your code, and people should respect that. (Though even those licenses tend to require attribution, and copilot doesn't do even that.)

Other people use licenses that try to create a commons where if you want to use it you need to share your own code, as a counterpoint to the non-commons in which you can't use code at all. And if people use those licenses, they should be respected as well.

By all means, eliminate copyright, and let all code be copied freely. And until that happens, as long as proprietary code exists and doesn't let anyone copy it, respect copyleft licenses as well.

Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by andybak on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:26PM (#31854057)
A fair point. "What to do in a world where copyright already exists" is a tougher question to answer and one in which I tend to go back and forth.