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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by vorpalhex on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:16PM (#33488523)
The tool itself is infringing copyright. It possesses and reproduces copyrighted code without it's attribution. Full stop.

If I steal your television, it doesn't matter how much I get for it at the pawn shop.

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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by nl on Sunday November 06, 2022 @12:47AM (#33489080)
You can Google and find GPL'ed code. That doesn't mean Google is facilitating license violation even though the Google search index posses and reproduces GPL'ed code.

> It possesses and reproduces copyrighted code without it's attribution.

To be clear - attribution does not fix GPL license violation.

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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by Beldin on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:37AM (#33490488)
You can Google and find GPL'ed code.

Emphasis mine.

This is different from asking Google and getting code directly from Google without the license - that is, without any indication that this code was taken from somewhere that has a license on all parts of it, not just the parts that Google didn't bother to show you.

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