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Surprised I had to scroll so far to find this, given how copyleft and straight-up anti-IP so much of the open source community is. I think a lot more people on
by MontyCarloHall 5y ago
Surprised I had to scroll so far to find this, given how copyleft and straight-up anti-IP so much of the open source community is.
I think a lot more people on this site (and in the FOSS community in general) would be on board with Copilot if it respected viral licenses, e.g. if it had a way of inferring that the code it was copying verbatim were GPL-3 and warned the user that including it in their project would require them to GPL-3 their project as well.
- ImprobableTruth 5y agoBut that's literally the issue. The only form of intellectual property that is being damaged by this is copyleft.
- pabs3 5y agoPermissive licenses have requirements too, mostly attribution.
- noobermin 5y agoHonestly, that would fix every issue with it. The laundering of the license is the issue.