> On a tangential note, I always find the discussions surrounding FOSS licenses and copyright rather amusing in a sad way. There's a certain kind of entitlement

> On a tangential note, I always find the discussions surrounding FOSS licenses and copyright rather amusing in a sad way. There's a certain kind of entitlement a lot of people feel towards FOSS that they certainly do not express towards proprietary software and I imagine this a great source of the resentment and burn-out FOSS maintainers feel. Definitely. Many of my acquaintances complaining about Github Copilot without trying it themselves regularly pirate movies, shows and music. They also always cheer if there is some court ruling against Facebook or Google, no matter what the actual case is even about. > The question is ultimately going to come down to - "Is Copilot the same as a human programmer reading a lot of GPL code and rehashing, in a non-infringing way, the algorithms, functions, and designs used in a lot of FOSS? Or is Copilot performing more of a copy and paste pastiche of code that is protected by intellectual property law?" It seems to me that the regurgitation only happens if you post the first half of the code, expecting the second half. I imagine that the software sees how several hundred repositories (which are all forks) have a very similar pattern and tells you the best fitting approximation of how they continue, which is again very similar. In the future I can definitely see Github updating their license and some kind of exodus by FOSSers towards GitLab. But I believe that many open source projects will just put up with it, similar to how Youtubers and Twitch streamers want to stay on the premier platform.