Legal concerns?
Legal concerns?
Posted Sep 28, 2025 21:22 UTC (Sun) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)In reply to: Legal concerns? by mb
Parent article: Fedora considers an AI-tool policy
But this is exactly how Copilot works.
You want an implementation of the base64 algorithm ? AVL trees ? Presto you get one !
But from what project source code it was lifted from is left untold.
You want an implementation of the base64 algorithm ? AVL trees ? Presto you get one !
But from what project source code it was lifted from is left untold.
There is no way anything or anyone can derive an algorithm from a function name without using a database.
The cloud is just using other people computers. Vibe coding is just copying other people source code.
Posted Sep 28, 2025 21:27 UTC (Sun)
by mb (subscriber, #50428)
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No, it's not.
Legal concerns?
> But this is exactly how Copilot works.
Nobody asks Copilot: "here is the first literal copyrighted part of the algorithm. What does the rest look like?"