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Does GitHub Copilot tell me which license the code it suggested has? If not it's a huge difference to code search engines.
by foepys 5y ago
Does GitHub Copilot tell me which license the code it suggested has? If not it's a huge difference to code search engines.
- foxpurple 5y agoCopilot is not a search engine. It synthesises code so it is unlicensed.
- roblabla 5y agoThe judge is still out on the licensing issue. And given it can, at least sometimes, output verbatim copy paste, including comments, of well-known GPL code[0], well, let's just say the issue is not clear-cut. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287
- lumost 5y agoCopilot's api and suggestions could easily (and maybe was?) implemented as a SBQA style model. Using a search engine to find promising examples/context followed by a transformer model to synthesize the final output. Attribution would clearly be required in such a search derived model.