Copilot sells code other people wrote

Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by tuckerman on Saturday June 25, 2022 @11:39AM (#31876110)

You are making a lot of assumptions about what someone wants/intends when they contribute to open source codebases. If an author chooses, for example, the AGPL, I think they clearly had a different intention. Like it or not, not everyone wants to dedicate their work to the public domain.

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by Varqu on Sunday June 26, 2022 @01:59AM (#31881500)

Then why contribute to open source if you want to still be a gatekeeper? In that case better to fork it and work in a private repo.

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by rpd9803 on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:36PM (#31955959)

GPL code is open source but what you do with it also needs to be open source as a condition of its use. Will CoPilot inform developers if suddenly the code suggested requires them to re-license their software?

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by tuckerman on Sunday June 26, 2022 @10:09AM (#31884159)

Every large successful open source project I know is explicitly not in the public domain/licensed CC0. I understand that there are some people that are very against copyright/intellectual property but you surely must interact with a large number of projects/people that disagree.

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