Right, but Copilot is not creating a piece of critical media about the code it is ingesting (IANAL, but my understanding is that this gets interpreted pretty st

Right, but Copilot is not creating a piece of critical media about the code it is ingesting (IANAL, but my understanding is that this gets interpreted pretty strictly). I don’t think the normal Fair Use classes apply here. Even if the code isn’t being copied verbatim, it feels like the spirit of these licenses is being violated, although I don’t know if that’s enough to get anywhere in court. But if the code is in fact being copied (like that Quake example) then the license is definitely being violated. But I feel like there’s too much analysis in these comments of whether a current law is being broken, and not enough thought about what will happen if licenses like the GPL can no longer keep intellectual property free. Open source licenses are part of the foundation of this community, and we’ll be much worse off without them. We really need a way to prevent this kind of IP laundering, and if current laws won’t do it, then we need new ones.