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How would they do that?

• oauea 5y ago
  Read the LICENSE file in each repo.
  • rovr138 5y ago
    What guarantees it’s intact?
    • willis936 5y ago
      It doesn't need to be. If the license isn't positively exactly permissive then you can't use it.
      • hermitdev 5y ago
        Can you even trust that the License in a random repo is accurate and expresses the actual copyright of all the contained code? I guess my point is, you can't be positive that even if you're following the license in a repo you forked that the repo owner hasn't already violated someone else's license, and now transitively, so have you.
        • icebraining 5y ago
          > Can you even trust that the License in a random repo is accurate and expresses the actual copyright of all the contained code? In fact, that seems to be exactly the problem shown in the tweet - someone copy-pasted the quake source and slapped a different license on it, and copilot blindly trusted the new license.