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		gus_massa on June 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? I think copyright is a problem for GPL-like licenses. They should have restricted the training data to MIT/BSD-like. Anyway, there is another problem that is patents and is huger, much huger. I think the Apache license has a provision about patents, but most of other licenses may have code that has patents and if the AI generate something similar it may be included in the patent.

joepie91_ on June 30, 2021 [–]

MIT/BSD-like would still require attribution, which they are also not doing.

gus_massa on June 30, 2021 | [–]

I think you are correct, but (I guess that) most people that use MIT/BSD use them as a polite version of the WTFPL.

People that use A/L/GPL usually like the virality and will complain more.

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