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humanwhosits on Nov 3, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot

> irregardless of license

Hard no. Please stop using open source code if this is how you think of it.

Without licenses being respected, we don't get open source communities.

az226 on Nov 5, 2022 [–]

Licenses be damned, copyright law sits above it -- and for now, it's hard to see how this isn't fair use. The only case might be an open source Copilot alternative and GitHub and OpenAI can take any such projects out of the training set.

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