> Not so, says Alex Graveley, principal engineer at GitHub and the inventor of Copilot, who responded that “the code in question is different from the example g

> Not so, says Alex Graveley, principal engineer at GitHub and the inventor of Copilot, who responded that “the code in question is different from the example given. Similar, but different.” Isn't this still a copyright violation? I'm not a lawyer, but I always thought that swapping in a few synonyms wasn't enough to sidestep copyright issues.