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Most open source licences don't even prohibit selling apps that contain open source code.



A lot of open source licenses demand that if the licensed code is included in a derivative work, that new work has to carry the same license. GitHub Copilot is straightforwardly violating these terms in many cases, and I hope the pending class action lawsuit sets statutory boundaries around the inclusion of data in a training set, and that those boundaries are retroactive.


Github copilot needs to be updated then. To filter code by licence or something. In many cases using GPL code is perfectly fine.




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