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True and valid. But all those clauses, AFAIK, were written with the mindset of ïf you want to run this code (particularly, but not limited to, for profit), you have to at least attribute it”. Copilot allegedly doesn’t run that code - it claims to read it, understand how it works and then generate its own code that does an equivalent function if requested. It’s up to the lawsuit to decide if that’s what it actually does, but my point is that the licenses simply did not cover this usage pattern, as much as no open source license requires any kind of action from someone who’s just reading or studying the code.



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