At one point does AI recreating patterns it has seen from reading source code count as a derived work? What if a human learns to code by reading only GPLed code, does all the code they write fall under GPL as a derived work now?
> “If you look at the GitHub Terms of Service, no matter what license you use, you give GitHub the right to host your code and to use your code to improve their products and features,” [Kate] Downing, [an IP lawyer specializing in FOSS compliance] says. “So with respect to code that’s already on GitHub, I think the answer to the question of copyright infringement is fairly straightforward.”
This has some interesting implications – for example, it means I can't mirror somebody else's (open source) code on GitHub without their explicit agreement.
There's one thing I'm missing from all these discussions and posts: is the generated code even copyrightable? IANAL, but code snippets often fall under the "scènes à faire" doctrine (everybody would do it in a similar way), in which case it's not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%C3%A8nes_%C3%A0_faire
natefinch|3 years ago
https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin...
https://fossa.com/blog/analyzing-legal-implications-github-c...
notpushkin|3 years ago
This has some interesting implications – for example, it means I can't mirror somebody else's (open source) code on GitHub without their explicit agreement.
janosdebugs|3 years ago