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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright by dist-epoch on Thursday July 11, 2024 @07:02AM (#40935363)
> The weights are the derivative work of the GPL licensed code

EU courts disagree:

> Under European copyright law, scraping GPL-licensed code, or any other copyrighted work, is legal, regardless of the licence used.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright by xigoi on Thursday July 11, 2024 @07:57AM (#40935702)
Sure, scraping it is by itself legal. But making a derivative worR from it and selling it?
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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright by carom on Monday July 15, 2024 @04:26AM (#40966125)
The weights are not created by scraping. Sure, you can scrape it, but what you do with it matters.
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