Re:What Copilot means for open source
by jimmySixDOF on Saturday June 25, 2022 @08:23PM
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Whats to stop them from just making a huge attribution page with every possible instance and a vague statement like "the following may or may not have been incorporated in part or in whole" ?
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They’d be gambling that such a crummy attribution would hold up in court. Generally judges aren’t too amused by people’s efforts to find wacky loopholes that make a mockery of the law.
On the other hand, open source licenses haven’t been tested thoroughly in court, so maybe the result would be to throw out such attribution requirements entirely. The main relevant case to date is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobsen_v._Katzer