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Re:Coping with Copilot by skybrian on Saturday August 20, 2022 @04:13PM (#32534847)
This is unclear. I have never seen an open source license that was explicit about this. Seems like a grey area.

It's not even clear how often training machine learning algorithms on code results in copyright violations. CoPilot does have a setting to detect and disallow direct copying, but how well does it work?

This legal uncertainty is enough that I wouldn't advise using it, but maybe people who use it will be fine?

Re:Coping with Copilot by int_19h on Sunday August 21, 2022 @08:28AM (#32539490)
It's messy enough it's likely to end up a Supreme Court case in US (and I wouldn't want to be a party to it).

Europeans will probably preempt that with legislation.