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> > That's not what happens with these services: they don't _copy_ code > > from other software (that won't work, because the probability of the > > variables being called by other names is 100%, and thus such code, if > > pasted into your program, will not compile). What they do, they > > extract ideas and algorithms from those other places, and express them > > in terms of your variables and your data types. So licenses are not > > relevant here. > According to online reviews chunks of code is copied even verbatim and > people find from where. Even if modified, it still requires licensing > compliance. >From what I have read, it seems that the behavior of copilot runs on a spectrum from the first description to the second description. I expect that in many cases, nothing copyrightable has been copied, but in some cases copilot does copy a substantial amount from a copyrighted work. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
