> Microsoft is explicitly saying it's your responsibility to check if the Copilot's output that you ads to your codebase is infringing on anyone's license.
(Never used copilot)
Wow, this is kinda shocking IMO. It kind of negates the entire value proposition of the tool.
How am I supposed to find out whether a snippet is infringing? Should I paste it into google or something? Shouldn’t Copilot be the one to tell me if a snippet too-closely matches some existing code it learned from?
If MS is indeed saying this, I feel like it’s something they put in the agreement to cover their own asses. There’s no way they’d really expect everyone to do this sort of thing. Moreover I don’t feel that’s a very strong defense MS could use in court if somebody decides to go after MS for making the tool that makes infringement so easy. It sounds like one of those “wink wink” types of clauses that they know full well nobody will follow.
