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If a software developer learns how to code better by reading GPL software and then later uses the skills they developed to build closed source for profit softwa
by fancyfredbot 4y ago
If a software developer learns how to code better by reading GPL software and then later uses the skills they developed to build closed source for profit software should they be sued?
- buzzy_hacker 4y agoCopilot is not a person, it is a piece of software.
- Phrodo_00 4y agoDepends on how closely they reuse the code. Writing it verbatim or nearly? Yes.
- jacooper 4y agoA human doesn't perfectly reproduce the same code he learned from.
- throwaway675309 4y agoA person with eidetic memory absolutely could do so.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoIf a software developer writes a program to remember a million lines of GPL code, then uses that dataset to "generate" some of that code, then they are essentially violating that license with extra steps. The extra steps aren't enough to exhonorate them. It's just a convoluted copy operation. Is just like how a lossy encoding of a song is still - with respect to copyright - a copy of that song. The data is totally different, and some of the original is missing. It's still a derivative work. So is a remix. So is a reperformance.