Class-action lawsuit filed against Microsoft's GitHub Copilot for software piracy
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They are claiming that Microsoft is engaging in open-source software piracy by using billions of lines of code written by millions of programmers under various licenses including MIT, GPL, and Apache.
"I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites."
Not a dupe - the last one was them complaining about it, now the lawsuit.
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They are claiming that Microsoft is engaging in open-source software piracy by using billions of lines of code written by millions of programmers under various licenses including MIT, GPL, and Apache.
"I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites."
Not a dupe - the last one was them complaining about it, now the lawsuit.
Are you sure about the first type? I would say that's more the exception confirming the rule, because the % of those is reaaaaaalllly low.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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They are claiming that Microsoft is engaging in open-source software piracy by using billions of lines of code written by millions of programmers under various licenses including MIT, GPL, and Apache.
"I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites."
Not a dupe - the last one was them complaining about it, now the lawsuit.
If they're pirating open-source software without regard to its license, it could be a problem. At this point, it's most likely at the level of code snippets, so I wouldn't care if they did it with my code. But as the technology improves, it could end up crossing the line.
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If they're pirating open-source software without regard to its license, it could be a problem. At this point, it's most likely at the level of code snippets, so I wouldn't care if they did it with my code. But as the technology improves, it could end up crossing the line.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Non-public code snippets would fall under those copywrites. If the author had published the snippets anywhere, including here on Code Project, then the copywrite status become a very serious gray area. If they were published in print media then they become fair game for anyone as Technology Review demonstrated back during the height of the music copywrite legal battles by publishing, in paper format, the code to circumvent one of Sony's copy protection schemes.
