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Exactly, the chain of custody is absolutely required for this to be legal because no oracle can exist. It must be able to attribute exactly who contributed the suspect code. It must be able to handle the edge case where some humans might publish code without permission.

Either that or we effectively get rid of software copyright as copilot can be used (or even claim to be used) to launder code of license restrictions. Eg No I didn't copy your code, I used copilot and it copied your code so I did nothing wrong.

>>polyma+(OP)
Right, so we need a system for when a dev goes and grabs code-snippets from blogs and open-source freely licensed projects on e.g. github in which they can say that the code is from so-and-so source? So like a way to distribute and inherit git blame?

>>polyma+(OP)
This takes place with or without copilot. The problem would be people copying code and releasing it under a different license.