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Re:Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her t... by bombcar on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:53AM (#33431835)
But you may not have the rights to grant that extra license if CoPilot is determined to violate the GPL, they can yell at you all they want but they will have to remove it, as nobody can break someone else's license for you.

It'll have to be tested in court, but likely nobody actually gives a shit.

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Re:Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her t... by judge2020 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @09:14AM (#33435186)
> But you may not have the rights to grant that extra license if CoPilot is determined to violate the GPL

Which is why that second provision is there shifting liability to you. You MUST have the ability to grant GitHub that license to any code you upload. If you don't, and MS is sued for infringing upon the GPL, presumably Microsoft can name you as the fraudster that claimed to be able to grant them a license to code that ended up in copilot.

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