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An EULA doesn't trump copyright laws and spitting out code it was trained on is clearly not transformative.
by tpxl 3y ago
An EULA doesn't trump copyright laws and spitting out code it was trained on is clearly not transformative.
- az226 3y agoSpitting out lines or paragraphs from a repo is most likely fair use. Unless you can reproduce a substantial portion of a repo, I think it’s going to be an uphill battle to argue it isn’t fair use. Though I suspect Copilot’s suppression feature will make doing so impossible.
- tpxl 3y agoAssuming the reports of it producing the fast inverse square root function, comments included, from the Quake 3 engine were true; spitting out the whole function, comments included, doesn't look OK to me. Either way, the whole copilot thing smells of 'the issue of copyright infringement is more copyright infringement' to me.
- az226 3y agoOracle would like to have a word..