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Re:Coping with Copilot by cmrdporcupine on Saturday August 20, 2022 @10:44PM (#32536968)
Your argument fails to distinguish between "open source" and "free software".

Copyleft, free software, GPL style licenses do not have their source open purely for the purpose of studying and modifying. Their licenses also require that derivative works also be free and that such modifications be distributed.

Copilot does not comply with this. And so violates the spirit of those licenses, and probably also the letter of the law.

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Re:Coping with Copilot by Gigachad on Sunday August 21, 2022 @12:02AM (#32537301)
Open source is usually referring to the OSI definition which is essentially identical to the FSF “free software” term.

And by that logic, gpt3 and dall-e are also copyright violations. Except this has never been proven to be the case.

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Re:Coping with Copilot by sidlls on Sunday August 21, 2022 @12:00AM (#32537297)
I literally use “libre” and “gratis” to make that precise distinction.

And it’s at best questionable whether copilot is derivative of the code it is trained on.

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Re:Coping with Copilot by xigoi on Monday August 22, 2022 @06:10AM (#32549456)
It's not about the distinction between “libre” and “gratis”, but about the distinction between copyleft and permissive.
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