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1. helsin+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-10-17 06:22:26
That code seems to appear in thousands of repositories on GitHub, I’m sure some of them haven’t copied the license.

The vast majority of people who would use a matrix transform function they got from code completion (or from a GitHub or stack overflow search) probably don’t care what the license is. They’ll just paste in the code. To many developers publicly viewable code is in the public domain. Code pilot just shortens the search by a few seconds.

Microsoft should try todo better (I’m not sure how), but the sad fact is that trying to enforce a license on a code fragment is like dropping dollar bills on the sidewalk with a note pinned to them saying “do not buy candy with this dollar”

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2. extrop+c2[view] [source] 2022-10-17 06:47:57
>>helsin+(OP)
I still remember the days when we hand billion dollar lawsuits over 20 lines of code (Oracle vs Google).

If CoPilot makes everyone see how ridiculous that is, that's a win in my book.

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