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I don't understand what's going on there. I don't use github. Can someone explain what the author means? Edit: in detail

niek_pas 4y ago
Google “GitHub copilot”
lakomen 4y ago
Nice, being downvoted for asking questions. Nice asshole culture on HN.
- tjpnz 4y ago
  You can ask questions but they can't be low effort and need to add something to the discussion.
- martin_a 4y ago
  Just like with StackOverflow, people are expected to invest some time or amount of work in getting familiar with the topic. Your question seemed to lack this kind of work and was probably therefore downvoted. I don't think that's so much about "asshole culture" but more like time management, as not everything can be explained to everybody in every topic.
npteljes 4y ago
GitHub Copilot is a paid feature, but that's a red herring in this discussion - people are free to monetize free software, neither or the major licenses forbid this. GitGub Copilot is an advanced autocomplete / code generation system, based on a machine learning model. The code used for training the model is taken from projects hosted on GitHub. These projects were published under different licenses. The main questions are: Some of the licenses need something from you if you create a derivative work. Does the Copilot training itself count as creating a derivative work? Sometimes the autocomplete basically quotes the original code. Does the original license then apply to the autocompleted / generated code too? How much of verbatim code quoting does it need for the result to be considered a derivative work?
- kaetemi 4y ago
  Those instances where people demonstrate verbatim copies, are mostly either well known snippets which have been copied a million times already, or obvious completions of a partial verbatim piece of the supposedly copied code that any coder could extrapolate.

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I don't understand what's going on there. I don't use github. Can someone explain what the author means? Edit: in detail

by lakomen 4y ago

niek_pas 4y ago
Google “GitHub copilot”
lakomen 4y ago
Nice, being downvoted for asking questions. Nice asshole culture on HN.
- tjpnz 4y ago
  You can ask questions but they can't be low effort and need to add something to the discussion.
- martin_a 4y ago
  Just like with StackOverflow, people are expected to invest some time or amount of work in getting familiar with the topic. Your question seemed to lack this kind of work and was probably therefore downvoted. I don't think that's so much about "asshole culture" but more like time management, as not everything can be explained to everybody in every topic.
npteljes 4y ago
GitHub Copilot is a paid feature, but that's a red herring in this discussion - people are free to monetize free software, neither or the major licenses forbid this. GitGub Copilot is an advanced autocomplete / code generation system, based on a machine learning model. The code used for training the model is taken from projects hosted on GitHub. These projects were published under different licenses. The main questions are: Some of the licenses need something from you if you create a derivative work. Does the Copilot training itself count as creating a derivative work? Sometimes the autocomplete basically quotes the original code. Does the original license then apply to the autocompleted / generated code too? How much of verbatim code quoting does it need for the result to be considered a derivative work?
- kaetemi 4y ago
  Those instances where people demonstrate verbatim copies, are mostly either well known snippets which have been copied a million times already, or obvious completions of a partial verbatim piece of the supposedly copied code that any coder could extrapolate.