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> That sounds cherry-picked. Just because some high profile, highly-retweeted person says something doesn't make it not cherry picked. It's his code. This "hi

by klyrs 4y ago

> That sounds cherry-picked. Just because some high profile, highly-retweeted person says something doesn't make it not cherry picked. It's his code. This "high profile, highly-retweeted" crap is an appeal to emotion. He has a specific and legitimate interest in protecting his own intellectual property. It's not "cherry-picking" to report a crime being committed on your front lawn.

Aeolun 4y ago
> It's not "cherry-picking" to report a crime being committed on your front lawn. And as soon as he sees someone actually take the chair from his front lawn he can report it as a crime. He cannot report the people walking past because they could potentially steal his chair. One could even argue that if he didn’t want his chair taken, maybe he should have locked it in his shed. Of course, these chairs duplicate, so it’s not as if he loses his own chair.
- klyrs 4y ago
  Redistribution of that code, absent its license, is a violation of the license. That's already happened.
  - abigail95 4y ago
    I'm done with this thread. No, it is not. For it to be a violation you have to lose a court case. To lose a court case a court has to find against your fair-use defense. A fair use defense is fact specific to the parties involved. What's fair for you might not be fair for me. Only a court can determine fair use.
    - klyrs 4y ago
      Sure, duh, this discussion does not constitute a legal ruling. Nobody here is a lawyer nor a judge presiding over the case. We're potential subjects of a class action suit discussing grievances and merits of the case.
vultour 4y ago
So why is he complaining about copilot and not the thousands of GitHub repositories redistributing his code with improper license? Typing the little code snippet he showed into copilot is analogous to typing it into the GH search bar and grabbing a properly-licensed result.

by klyrs 4y ago

Aeolun 4y ago

> It's not "cherry-picking" to report a crime being committed on your front lawn. And as soon as he sees someone actually take the chair from his front lawn he can report it as a crime. He cannot report the people walking past because they could potentially steal his chair. One could even argue that if he didn’t want his chair taken, maybe he should have locked it in his shed. Of course, these chairs duplicate, so it’s not as if he loses his own chair.

klyrs 4y ago
Redistribution of that code, absent its license, is a violation of the license. That's already happened.
- abigail95 4y ago
  I'm done with this thread. No, it is not. For it to be a violation you have to lose a court case. To lose a court case a court has to find against your fair-use defense. A fair use defense is fact specific to the parties involved. What's fair for you might not be fair for me. Only a court can determine fair use.
  - klyrs 4y ago
    Sure, duh, this discussion does not constitute a legal ruling. Nobody here is a lawyer nor a judge presiding over the case. We're potential subjects of a class action suit discussing grievances and merits of the case.

vultour 4y ago

So why is he complaining about copilot and not the thousands of GitHub repositories redistributing his code with improper license? Typing the little code snippet he showed into copilot is analogous to typing it into the GH search bar and grabbing a properly-licensed result.