> Copilot just sells code other people wrote So what? Selling code other people wrote is the foundation of the free software movement. It is the entire busines

> Copilot just sells code other people wrote So what? Selling code other people wrote is the foundation of the free software movement. It is the entire business model of countless companies, and it is a good thing. Among them are most major linux distro vendors like Red Hat and Canonical. The value added by Copilot is that they sell you the lines "code other people wrote" you want out of billions. I still think it is derivative work, and that they should only process code under permissive licenses, or, if they want to include GPL code, make a GPL-only version, usable only for GPL projects. I thought it is what they did, there is so much code under permissive licenses that is should be enough to train their model, but apparently, they don't care, as long as it is public, it is included. For me, they are shooting themselves in the foot, several companies have already banned Copilot due to the potential issues with copyright.