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What asshole thing would I exactly be doing? The scenario I described isn't a weird hypothetical to exercise the law as code. It would be a genuinely useful use
by pedrocr 5y ago
What asshole thing would I exactly be doing? The scenario I described isn't a weird hypothetical to exercise the law as code. It would be a genuinely useful use of the Microsoft copyrights if that was allowed, just like Copilot is a genuinely useful use of the open-source copyrights. You just can't have one without the other.
- UncleMeat 5y agoYou are starting with the goal of recreating windows source and will produce a ton of it, rather than using the tool for another purpose and accidentally obtaining a small amount copyrighted code. The starting intentions are obviously different.
- pedrocr 5y agoMy version of the tool doesn't even create original code as it doesn't have access to it. If the difference between the two uses is how much verbatim, obviously infringing code, gets created, then Copilot has much bigger issues. The point of my hypothetical wasn't to whitewash stealing Microsoft code in some kind of legal quirk. It was to point out that if learning the structure of code with this kind of ML model is fair use then doing so with Microsoft copyrights is also useful for other purposes. And if Microsoft themselves think that is ok it would actually be a strong argument in this discussion. I suspect they don't and was pointing that out.