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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by heavyset_go on Saturday November 05, 2022 @09:06PM (#33487666)
Terms of many licenses require more than just attribution, but also the inclusion of the copyright notices and licenses verbatim. MIT, BSD, MPL, GPL, LGPL, AGPL, etc all require those at minimum.

Then there is the application of the licenses themselves. GPL licensed code stipulates that its inclusion in a new work means that the new work must be licensed under the GPL, as well. AGPL and LGPL have similar terms, but with different stipulations.

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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by xyzzy_plugh on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:40PM (#33488671)
Indeed, not to mention that you cannot just mix licenses. The vast majority of licenses are not compatible. It just so happens that some popular ones are, but in general the output is either GPL-like, MIT-like, or incompatible.
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