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1. snvzz+1o[view] [source] 2021-10-27 19:33:04
>>orph+(OP)
Still no way to opt your code out of this.

Disgusting.

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2. rectan+aq[view] [source] 2021-10-27 19:42:24
>>snvzz+1o
Legally, it needs to be opt-in in order to protect downstream consumers of code written by Copilot.

Copilot sometimes reproduces code verbatim. You can't use open source code except under the terms of the license. Authors whose code may be reproduced by Copilot need to grant a license to downstream consumers, and republishers of Copilot-generated code need to adhere to the terms of that license.

Copilot is inserting ticking time-bombs into its users' codebases.

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3. throwa+I35[view] [source] 2021-10-29 06:54:40
>>rectan+aq
How much of the code needs to be "unique" across a single codebase for copilot to be illegally pasting it downstream ?

For a great deal of copilot insertions, it's like the equivalent of me writing the sentence, "the man gasped in surprise" in a novel I'm working on. Yeah maybe that sentence came from somebody else's novel, but you can find the same damn sentence in a thousand other books/papers/etc as well.

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