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Should GitHub Be Sued For Training Copilot On GPL Code? (fosspost.org)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You really mean seeing the project as a derivative of the code used to train the bot, right? In that case, even permissive licenses usually require citing the author. In fact, in Europe, even if not stated in the license, the author can never loses their right to attribution.

I guess to refine your solution, every work built with the help of copilot should credit "copilot contributors" à la OSM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Yeah, good point. To really get it right, they would have to paste each snippet with a full copyright+license header attached. If the dev then removes that information, they're not at fault.

But yeah, it really feels more and more stupid, the more I think about it, to build a commercial tool that algorithmically reproduces copyrighted works with the copyright information removed.