We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot

Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by lpolk on Thursday November 03, 2022 @06:40PM (#33458946)

You grant them a content display license, not a general code license.

> It's almost as if these highly paid lawyers know what they're doing.

Sure, they wrote the content display license long before CoPilot even existed. Any court will see the intent and not interpret these terms as a code re-licensing.

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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by deanjones on Thursday November 03, 2022 @06:48PM (#33459035)

There is no such thing as a "content display licence" or "general code licence". There is copyright (literally, the right to make copies) which broadly lies with the author, who can then grant other parties a licence to copy their content.

I'm afraid I do not believe your legal expertise is so extensive that you are able to accurately predict the judgement of "any court".

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