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Do we have another example than the famous quake fast square root function?
by speedgoose 5y ago
Do we have another example than the famous quake fast square root function?
- spicybright 5y agoYeah, I'm not fully convinced it's as bad as a lot are making it out to be. What is even considered a copyrightable code snippet? If GPL code had a function like `int add_1(int x) { return x + 1; }` and you copy and pasted it, is that really stealing? What about if you wrote identical code without having looked at the GPL code? Or even if you've seen the GPL code but type it from memory? Or if you copy from someone that illegally copied the GPL code? It seems very non trivial with small functions like this, which is exactly the kind of code copilot outputs anyways. It's not like you're stealing large and unique parts of the code.
- xigoi 5y agoI could try to find one, but I don't want to pay Micro$oft just to prove a point.