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Quake and GitHub are both owned by Microsoft now, perhaps we can assume this is relicense?
by gok 5y ago
Quake and GitHub are both owned by Microsoft now, perhaps we can assume this is relicense?
- Jyaif 5y agoWow, Quake is owned by Microsoft. This is mind blowing, and a little sad.
- josefx 5y agoIt belongs to id software -> ZeniMax -> Xbox Game Studios -> Microsoft.
- johndough 5y agoIs it possible that Copilot just put Quake's source code into the public domain? From the Copilot FAQ: Who owns the code GitHub Copilot helps me write? GitHub Copilot is a tool, like a compiler or a pen. The suggestions GitHub Copilot generates, and the code you write with its help, belong to you, and you are responsible for it. We recommend that you carefully test, review, and vet the code, as you would with any code you write yourself. Copilot can probably recite most of Quake's source code and according to the FAQ, the output of Copilot belongs to the user. I think a point where this argumentation might fail is that Quake's source code does not belong to Github directly, but instead both Github and Quake belong to Microsoft. However, I am not a lawyer, so I might be wrong.