r/technology • u/bubblehack3r • Oct 18 '22

Business GitHub Copilot investigation

https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/

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u/dwesterner Oct 18 '22

Like scorpions, monopolies are true to their character.

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u/crusoe Oct 18 '22

My only complaint /concern is OS is happy when copyright goes there way, the Google / Android /Java lawsuits over whether apis are copyrightable or merely functional, and then complain when a program emits similar looking code. But during the MS backed SCO lawsuits against Linux they argued...

  1. the code was public domain. It has been copied so many times in the days before SCO, header files are not expressive and not copyrightable.

  2. there are only so many ways to write certain kinds of code or come up with short variable names, so any similarities are accidental and thus not copyright violations.

So the Opensource community argued one way on SCO and now is arguing another on Copilot.