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Is this similar to people moving away from giving their code as open source when companies take it, repackage, and sell it while the authors get nothing?
by aphexairlines 4y ago
Is this similar to people moving away from giving their code as open source when companies take it, repackage, and sell it while the authors get nothing?
- zirgs 4y agoMost open source licences don't even prohibit selling apps that contain open source code.
- mbgerring 4y agoA lot of open source licenses demand that if the licensed code is included in a derivative work, that new work has to carry the same license. GitHub Copilot is straightforwardly violating these terms in many cases, and I hope the pending class action lawsuit sets statutory boundaries around the inclusion of data in a training set, and that those boundaries are retroactive.
- zirgs 4y agoGithub copilot needs to be updated then. To filter code by licence or something. In many cases using GPL code is perfectly fine.