Read it all, and the questions still stand. Could you, or any on your team, point me on where the questions are answered?
In particular, the FAQ doesn't assure that the "training set from publicly available data" doesn't contain license or patent violations, nor if that code is considered tainted for a particular use.
> GitHub Copilot is a code synthesizer, not a search engine: the vast majority of the code that it suggests is uniquely generated and has never been seen before. We found that about 0.1% of the time, the suggestion may contain some snippets that are verbatim from the training set.
I'm guessing this covers it. I'm not sure if someone posting their code online, but explicitly saying you're not allowed to look at it, getting ingested into this system with billions of other inputs could somehow make you liable in court for some kind of infringement.
The most important question, whether you own the code, is sort of maybe vaguely answered under “How will GitHub Copilot get better over time?”
> You can use the code anywhere, but you do so at your own risk.
Something more explicit than this would be nice. Is there a specific license?
EDIT: also, there’s multiple sections to a FAQ, notice the drop down... under “Do I need to credit GitHub Copilot for helping me write code?”, the answer is also no.
Until a specific license (or explicit lack there-of) is provided, I can’t use this except to mess around.
None of the questions and answers in this section hold information about how the generated code affects licensing. None of the links in this section contain information about licensing, either.
Sorry Nat, but I don't think it really answers anything. I would argue that using GPL code during training falls under Copilot being a derivative work of said code. I mean if you look at how a language model works, than it's pretty straightforward. The word "code synthesizer" alone insinuates as much. I think this will probably ultimately tested in court.
viccuad|4 years ago
Read it all, and the questions still stand. Could you, or any on your team, point me on where the questions are answered?
In particular, the FAQ doesn't assure that the "training set from publicly available data" doesn't contain license or patent violations, nor if that code is considered tainted for a particular use.
res0nat0r|4 years ago
> GitHub Copilot is a code synthesizer, not a search engine: the vast majority of the code that it suggests is uniquely generated and has never been seen before. We found that about 0.1% of the time, the suggestion may contain some snippets that are verbatim from the training set.
I'm guessing this covers it. I'm not sure if someone posting their code online, but explicitly saying you're not allowed to look at it, getting ingested into this system with billions of other inputs could somehow make you liable in court for some kind of infringement.
samtheprogram|4 years ago
> You can use the code anywhere, but you do so at your own risk.
Something more explicit than this would be nice. Is there a specific license?
EDIT: also, there’s multiple sections to a FAQ, notice the drop down... under “Do I need to credit GitHub Copilot for helping me write code?”, the answer is also no.
Until a specific license (or explicit lack there-of) is provided, I can’t use this except to mess around.
dvaun|4 years ago
netcraft|4 years ago
Edit: you have to click the things on the left, I didn't realize they were tabs.
kitsune_|4 years ago
rozab|4 years ago