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> Bang! you have a non-gpl copy of the program! Moreover, it is 100% yours and you can re-license it as you want. This will be a boon for copyleft-allergic deve
by rlpb 5y ago
> Bang! you have a non-gpl copy of the program! Moreover, it is 100% yours and you can re-license it as you want. This will be a boon for copyleft-allergic developers!
Thinking that this would conveniently bypass the fact that your goal was to copy the code seems to be the most common legal fallacy amongst software developers. The law will see straight through you, and you will be found to have infringed copyright. The reason is well explained in "What Colour are your bits?" (https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23).
- enriquto 5y agoMy message was sarcastic. I'm worried about accidental conversion of free software into proprietary. I mean, "accidental" locally, in each particular instance; but maybe non accidental in the grand scheme of things. EDIT: to I can write my worry, semi-jokingly, as a conspiracy theory: Microsoft is using thousands of unsuspecting (and unwilling) developers to turn a huge copylefted corpus of algorithms into non-copylefted implementations. Even assuming that developers that use the co-pilot use non-copyleft licenses only 50% of the time, there's still a constant trickling of un-copyleftization.