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>>belter+(OP)
Isn’t “rewrite the example code in your own style” accepted best practice for human coders, when working from an example that does what you need?

I’m not sure what would be acceptable output for a code generation tool if rewriting the examples isn’t ok and reimplementing something that performs the same function still isn’t ok. Are we automatically granting de-facto code patents on all published code now?

>>taneq+he
proper attribution to the writer seems to be a big part of this. there is also suggestion ms knows, all about it but passes the liability buck to the end user of copilot suggestions.

[Lawyer and developer Matthew Butterick announced last month that he'd teamed up with the Joseph Saveri Law Firm to investigate Copilot. They wanted to know if and how the software infringed upon the legal rights of coders by scraping and emitting their work without proper attribution under current open-source licenses.]

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/07/in_brief_ai/

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/19/github_copilot_copyri...