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Oh, it think it's good enough to violate licenses. Because there is not much to it given how draconian copyright gets exercised in the western world. Copy past
by still_grokking 3y ago
Oh, it think it's good enough to violate licenses. Because there is not much to it given how draconian copyright gets exercised in the western world.
Copy paste a function signature… Copyright issue… Ask for example Google about that. (I mean the company, not necessary the search engine.)
The class actions against MS & Friends regarding Copilot are still rolling:
https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/case-updates.html https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/case-updates.html
- naikrovek 3y agoGoogle didn't get sued because of a single method signature, they got sued because they copied the function signatures of an entire language's standard library completely. that's a very different thing than copying a method signature here or there, and the suit was about the collection as a whole and would not have made it into a courtroom if it were just a few method signatures.