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Re:GitHub Copilot emits GPL code by visarga on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:03PM (#35660109)
> What Microsoft does is take your original work, create derivative works and sell them for profit. Unless it's under creative commons zero or public domain it shouldn't be legal...

Why should it not be legal? Doesn't that make copyright equally powerful with patents? Copyright should restrict only replication of expression not replication of ideas.

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Re:GitHub Copilot emits GPL code by YoshiRulz on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:36PM (#35662469)
"Microsoft is circumventing the intent of copyright law" and "Copyright law should be changed or repealed" can both be true.
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Re:GitHub Copilot emits GPL code by throwaway290 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @05:21AM (#35664737)
In this case we are talking about replication and manipulation of expression (for profit). Software doesn't understand ideas.
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