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You’re missing the point: Copilot depends on being exempt from copyright restrictions, so that the license, any license, is irrelevant. Simplified, copyright la
by chrismorgan 4y ago
You’re missing the point: Copilot depends on being exempt from copyright restrictions, so that the license, any license, is irrelevant. Simplified, copyright law says “the creator/rights-holder owns the thing and you can’t do anything with it unless they let you (grant you license), or one of these general conditions holds”, and Copilot is not using your code under rights-holder permission, but under the general condition of “fair use”.
If the fair use doctrine fails and the license is relevant, there’s still nothing special about GPL, because almost all licenses would be being violated in some way (most commonly starting with attribution requirements). In this situation, Copilot will certainly be discontinued immediately.
- janetacarr 4y agoI see what you mean. It'll probably come down to how the AI is trained then because Copilot reproducing entire code blocks verbatim from the source material would not meet the criteria for Fair Use.