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So how is this practice a benefit to anybody but Microsoft? Who takes on the legal risks?
by _y5hn 5y ago
So how is this practice a benefit to anybody but Microsoft? Who takes on the legal risks?
- jeltz 5y agoAre you asking the wrong person? I personally believe their fair use argument is both morally wrong and legally dubious (but I am not a lawyer). But my only point which I bothered to make in my comment above was that if they violate licenses (which I suspect they do, but am not sure of) they violate all licenses except outliers like WTFPL. So picking a licens which does not permit Copilot is trivial (assuming copyright law restricts things like Copilot).
- _y5hn 5y agoIt was more of a general question. Copilot seems to be software to undermine FOSS, and fits in a general pattern ie. the purchasing of github, VSCode (I'm learning Doom Emacs now). It's all the same things as the past 3 decades though. Nothing new, just new rat traps.