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Github Copilot violates the licenses of the open source code that it uses as its source material. I, for one, am pissed off about that. If you don't care abou
by rectang 4y ago
Github Copilot violates the licenses of the open source code that it uses as its source material. I, for one, am pissed off about that.
If you don't care about those authors, or don't care about copyright in general, or you agree with Microsoft's sketchy reasoning that copyright violation never occurs in Github Copilot (even though Github Copilot is perfectly capable of regurgitating big verbatim chunks of code from its training corpus)... then you won't get the hate.
- gowld 4y ago> Github Copilot violates the licenses Not even the FSF had made that claim yet. They are still in research mode: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-funded-call-for-white-papers-on-philosophical-and-legal-questions-around-copilot https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-funded-call-for-whit... https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white-papers-on-questions-around-copilot https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white... The latest conclusions so far: https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/copyright-implications-of-the-use-of-code-repositories-to-train-a-machine-learning-model https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/copyright-implications... "Copilot and its developer-customers likely do not infringe developers’ copyrights."