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"I'm guessing the prevailing theory (from GiitHub anyway) is that I'm legitimately allowed to do this." No. Copilot is a technical preview. In the final releas
by rgbrenner 5y ago
"I'm guessing the prevailing theory (from GiitHub anyway) is that I'm legitimately allowed to do this."
No. Copilot is a technical preview. In the final release, if it reproduces code verbatim, it'll tell you and present the correct license.
- ghoward 5y agoDoesn't matter that it's a technical preview; people are using it now, GitHub has already used it internally. So if it infringes now, there is already code out there being used that does infringe.
- rgbrenner 5y agoGitHub appears to be tracking every snippet that they're generating during their trials: https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitation https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio... Are you doing that? If not, then I wouldn't use GitHub's use as justification to engage in copyright infringement.
- ghoward 5y agoOh, I am not using Copilot. But other people not part of GitHub are. And those are still violations.
- x4e 5y agoHow will it find the “correct” license? Will it check the LICENSE file? Simply having a LICENSE file is not a declaration that all the code in that repo is under that LICENSE. What if specific lines/files are specified to be under different licenses? What if the publisher of the repo is publishing it under an incorrect license in bad faith? Will github be responsible if it tells me the wrong license?