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> if the suit against copilot fails then the GPL is effectively dead Not really because the GPL can be updated with a clause that allows GPLv5 (or whatever the
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
> if the suit against copilot fails then the GPL is effectively dead
Not really because the GPL can be updated with a clause that allows GPLv5 (or whatever the version is going to be) to be used to train public LLM models, but explicitly forbidden to be used to train private models.
I somehow don't think this is the end of the GPL... Yet!
- blibble 3y agoif it's fair use then it doesn't matter what's in the license Microsoft's position on Copilot is that it's fair use: > When questioned, former GNOME developer and (at the time of writing) GitHub CEO, Nat Friedman, declared publicly “(1) training ML systems on public data is fair use (2) the output belongs to the operator”. https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/if-software-is-my-copilot-who-programmed-my-software https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/if-software-is-my-copi...