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Just saying what you want to be true, doesn't make it so. Attribution is required for all licenses that require it. Microsoft is laundering intellectual propert
by fartcannon 4y ago
Just saying what you want to be true, doesn't make it so. Attribution is required for all licenses that require it. Microsoft is laundering intellectual property.
- yakak 4y agoA license is describing how you want to reassign rights given to you by copyright. AFAICT Microsoft believes they are within fair use granted by copyright law itself. If they are correct they don't have to follow individual license terms, if they are incorrect it makes no difference if they scrape or receive code because any complex project is a mix of many past authors not all of whom must be on GitHub.
- fartcannon 4y agoUnfortunately, they're not since it barfs out code verbatim sometimes and gives no attribution. So again, they can say whatever they want, it doesn't make it so.
- georgyo 4y agoJust because you say it's violating copyright and licensing doesn't make it so. If the courts don't agree then there is no penalty. It would legally be fair use. It does not matter what you or I think. You are arguing that it is wrong, but very clearly many lawyers disagree with you.
- fartcannon 4y agoJust because it hasn't been tested in court yet doesn't mean it's legal, my friend. It's an easy fix. Ask each dev for permission or provide attribution as per each license when the same code comes out of the model. Easy peasy.