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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by vesinisa on Thursday November 03, 2022 @05:48PM (#33458227)
Open source does not mean public domain. Open source specifically attaches limitations on how the code may be reused.
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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by elcomet on Thursday November 03, 2022 @05:54PM (#33458323)
There are no limitations on reading the code to learn from it.
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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by MontagFTB on Thursday November 03, 2022 @05:59PM (#33458405)
Perhaps the lawsuit contends that Copilot isn't in fact learning how to code, but is rather regurgitating information it has managed to glean and statistically categorize, without any real understanding as to what it was doing?
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