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Anyone can search and browse public code and copy and paste it into their own project regardless of license, too.
by chadlavi 5y ago
Anyone can search and browse public code and copy and paste it into their own project regardless of license, too.
- tut-urut-utut 5y agoYes, but that doesn't make it any more legal. Good luck copypasting a chunk of GPL code into your company closed source project and getting caught. You can claim that it was proposed by the tool and that you didn't know the license terms, but lack of knowledge of the actual license still doesn't mean that the license is not relevant. I would rather not use such a tool than worry about infringing someone's license.
- cjohansson 5y agoYes but it might be illegal
- kadoban 5y agoYes, and then they can get DMCAed or sued later if they get found out. Is the same true if they use Copilot? Seems like it would be to my non-lawyer understanding of copyright. If using Copilot is playing roulette with a lawsuit, can't imagine that'll help adoption.
- abarringer 5y agoIf anyone ever attempts to acquire your company they'll hire a third party to do a software composition analysis audit and look for improperly licensed code reuse. And you'll be screwed.