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0 pointsdanuker3y ago0 comments

Suppose Copilot offered some pure-MIT licensed flavor.

Copilot could comply with MIT licenses by just outputting an MIT license with ALL the authors of code used in training.

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That'd be a valid solution, if impractical. I doubt that people would be willing to copy hundreds of thousands of license notices into their project.

danukerOP3y ago

One perspective is that those authors actually contributed to the end result.

But sure, disk size could be a problem.

> One perspective is that those authors actually contributed to the end result.

They absolutely did, yes. The approach you're suggesting would work from a legal perspective, but the size might pose practical problems.

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That'd be a valid solution, if impractical. I doubt that people would be willing to copy hundreds of thousands of license notices into their project.

danukerOP3y ago

One perspective is that those authors actually contributed to the end result.

But sure, disk size could be a problem.

> One perspective is that those authors actually contributed to the end result.

They absolutely did, yes. The approach you're suggesting would work from a legal perspective, but the size might pose practical problems.

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