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It's because they aren't contradictory positions. The people who are against copilot are people who specifically choose licenses designed to ridicule and disman
by pessimizer 4y ago
It's because they aren't contradictory positions. The people who are against copilot are people who specifically choose licenses designed to ridicule and dismantle copyright. The problem is with Microsoft, who vigorously enforces their own copyrights, not only taking advantage of these projects without following their licenses, but even enabling others to do the same thing as a service. If Microsoft and Github released all of their source code under a FOSS license and required all of the users of copilot to do the same, people wouldn't have a problem with it.
If copyright were ended for art, music, and source code, there would be nothing wrong with copilot.
- flangola7 4y agoHow is that any different than the art generators? Most of the content they are trained on is not licensed even under a copyleft model, and rather have all rights reserved. The software equivalent is proprietary closed-source, or possibly available-source.
- b3morales 4y agoYes, they aren't different; they have exactly the same problem, which is why StableDiffusion is also the subject of a lawsuit, like Copilot.