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DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Jun 23, 2022 19:26 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering by NYKevin
Parent article: DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

The legal issue will probably depend on the specific data you can extract from copilot, and obviously github will not help you to find out, and lawyers might not be sufficient.

Maybe there is some specific request that led copilot to return whole body of some GPL files. For example, by looking for certain patterns that occurs in a single software etc.
That would strengthen the case.

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DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Jun 23, 2022 19:52 UTC (Thu) by Gaelan (guest, #145108) [Link]

Someone got Copilot to generate the fast inverse square root function from Quake III (which is GPL'd), "what the fuck?" comment and all: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

Amusingly, it also autocompleted a BSD license onto that code.


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