[ilammy]

It’s not necessarily a copyright violation if the license permits copying. Under a permissive license, you are expressly permitted to copy the code and distribute copies provided you comply with whatever conditions the license mandates, without an explicit blessing of the copyright holders. Most popular licenses do not include a prohibition on training AI models. Maybe people should start including a clause.

[xigoi]

Many popular licenses include a prohibition on being used to create proprietary software. GitHub Copilot is proprietary.