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Does reading software code count as "using software"? I personally don't consider myself subject to a license when I'm reading public code on GitHub. GitHub Cop

Does reading software code count as "using software"? I personally don't consider myself subject to a license when I'm reading public code on GitHub. GitHub Copilot and Codex AI seem to be doing nothing more than reading a bunch of source code, not reusing that code to incorporate its functionality into a different product.

kamranjon 4y ago
Did you read the part of the article where it states that it has been shown that Copilot copies verbatim large sections of copyrighted code, stripped of all attribution, depending on the prompt provided?
- asdff 4y ago
  I wonder how much code like that floats around stackoverflow