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by maclockard 1808 days ago
If you publish the code anywhere, potentially. You could be (unknowingly) violating the original license if the code was copied verbatim from another source.

How much of a concern this is depends heavily on what the original source was.

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And the problem with copilot is that you have no way of knowing. If it changes even a little bit of the code, it's basically ungoogleable but still potentially in violation.
Distributing binaries to third parties is enough to trigger a license violation. For internal corporate tools, it would be less of an issue as "distribution" hasn't happened.