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If you're against Copilot as developer, you're shooting yourself in the foot. Locking up code under non-permissive licenses stymies the pace of code developmen
by Andys 4y ago
If you're against Copilot as developer, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
Locking up code under non-permissive licenses stymies the pace of code development and increases the costs of progress dramatically.
We all stand on the shoulders of others before us. Including the organisations that stand to benefit the most from aggressive licensing.
- jacooper 4y agoNot my problem. I put my time and my effort to open source a program for free and I want to make sure that my code creates an incentive to create more free software, by using a copyleft license.
- Andys 4y agoOh, so you're saying Copilot doesn't actually go far enough. It should not only give you code snippets but enforce particular licensing of the code it is helping you create?
- qu4z-2 4y agoIf it feeds you code made available under the GPL, it should probably tell you that your code needs to comply with the GPL to use that snippet, yes?
- klllai 4y agoCopy & paste isn't "standing on the shoulders of others". It is more like being an intestinal parasite.
- rockemsockem 4y agoNot trying to overly advocate for copy-pasting here, but isn't copy-pasting just the ugly child of calling a library function? If it's a blind copy-paste it's pretty much the same effect. Surely you wouldn't call using a library being an intestinal parasite?
- jkqrt 4y agoIsn't copying a poem and releasing it under your own name (i.e, stealing it) the same as referring to it in a footnote, using proper attribution?
- rafaelero 4y agoIf Copilot was just a "copy and paste" tool very few people would find it useful and you wouldn't be here whining. So don't worry, Copilot is not just copying and pasting.