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Microsoft has skilled lawyers who think Copilot is legal. Same goes for Google's Alphacode. The Software Freedom Conservancy has skilled lawyers who think Cop

Microsoft has skilled lawyers who think Copilot is legal. Same goes for Google's Alphacode. The Software Freedom Conservancy has skilled lawyers who think Copilot/etc. isn't legal: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/03/github-copilot-copyleft-gpl/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/03/github-copilot-co... Until there are court cases that set precedent, nobody will know for sure.

anon2020dot00 5y ago
My impression is that this goes to show how poor GPL and other copy-left licenses are. Basically a person is never allowed to look at GPL code if that person will ever have a possibility of writing commercial software. Github Co-Pilot will most likely not be used to directly compete with GPL-licensed software but the argument of the copy-left organization is that even using snippets of it is not allowed. So basically GPL is really a poor idea of open source, imo, since they make it open for people to view but you can't really use it. If you even read a piece of GPL snippet, you have to erase it from your mind when you're working on a commercial software.