Authors of open source software choose to put their code out into the world. The legal agreement is if you use it, you attribute the use and abide by the rules

Authors of open source software choose to put their code out into the world. The legal agreement is if you use it, you attribute the use and abide by the rules of the license. In practice this is not often done, and there is little consequence except in truly egregious cases. I don't know any open source contributors who stop working based on this or have their livelihoods affected. I personally, do not care. If I didn't want people to use the code, I wouldn't have published it at all. If copliot were to reproduce code from a public repo of mine, I don't care. The genie is not going back in the bottle, so this whole discussion is moot.