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I am reporting facts, not making any judgement on the legitimacy of their claim. As far as practical consequences are concerned: if their fair use claim is str
by chrismorgan 4y ago
I am reporting facts, not making any judgement on the legitimacy of their claim.
As far as practical consequences are concerned: if their fair use claim is struck down, Copilot is dead, unequivocally, because the only kind of license they can satisfy is a public-domain-equivalent one, and there’s not all that much such code. This is why I said “depends entirely on”.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31849107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31849107 where I said much the same thing, and pointed out that any mentions of the GPL specifically are a red herring.