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The other angle I'd really like to see is license safety. If it was possible to create a Copilot type tool trained exclusively on permissively licensed code (or
by thaeli 4y ago
The other angle I'd really like to see is license safety. If it was possible to create a Copilot type tool trained exclusively on permissively licensed code (or even proprietary code that was licensed such that the tool subscription could include a very broad license grant) and with a business model that was willing to indemnify customers against copyright and patent claims - now that would be worth a hefty subscription fee.
- WithinReason 4y agoI wonder what percentage of open source code doesn't require attribution when copied
- chrismorgan 4y agoYou’re probably making the already-classic blunder here, thinking that the GPL is somehow special. If the license requires attribution (which almost all do), you’re stuck if the “fair use” exemption Copilot claims falls down. The quantity of public-domain or public-domain-equivalent-licensed code out there is almost certainly not enough to train such a tool (by several orders of magnitude, most likely—you can tweak an existing model with small amounts of code, but I believe generating a useful model from scratch will require a lot more than you are likely to find). This kind of thing cannot succeed legally without the fair use exemption from copyright.