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The issue is that if you, as a human, regurgitated swaths of GPL code verbatim, you would be in violation of copyright.
by BaculumMeumEst 4y ago
The issue is that if you, as a human, regurgitated swaths of GPL code verbatim, you would be in violation of copyright.
- bobsmooth 4y agoI can't fathom the amount of copyright infringement the Ctrl, C and V keys have caused.
- npteljes 4y agoYou might not be able, but larger enterprises pay serious money for solutions that make sure that the code is clean, so that a junior copypaster won't make the company liable. One of such is https://www.blackducksoftware.com/ https://www.blackducksoftware.com/
- blackoil 4y agoIf CodePilot is outputting unique enough GPL code verbatim, then a simple search can inform the user about it and he can make the decision to keep it or not. This could be a feature requirement.
- dewey 4y agoThere will still be a person committing the code that Copilot came up with in the end, wouldn't that person be in violation of copyright too then? Just like if they would've copied it from some code base they found online under a non-permissive license.