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I don't care about the money. I support this because it will establish case law that other companies can't ignore licenses as long as they throw AI somewhere in the chain.

If "I took your code and trained an AI that then generated your code" is a legal defense, the GPL and similar licenses all become moot.




But that's not what's happening here. Also, you grant GitHub a license.

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

"You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content"

Copilot displays content. Case closed.


Feel free to keep reading the next line down:

"This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content"




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