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by pabs3 1791 days ago
If Copilot is violating the GPL license family, then it is also violating the permissive licenses like MIT too.
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MichaelMoser123 1791 days ago
How so? the MIT license allows you to do everything with the code. It doesn't allow to sue the author, but that's about it. Here it is: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
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bblough 1791 days ago
From your link:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Not including the copyright information for the MIT-licensed code is a violation of the license.

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MichaelMoser123 1791 days ago
depends on what is a 'substantial portion' of the software. i think that definition is not very clear.
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bblough 1791 days ago
No, it's not clear, and I guess that's up to the courts to decide.

But in my (non-lawyer) opinion - if the reproduced code is substantial/unique enough to be deemed to be covered by the license, then it's also substantial/unique enough to be subject to that license requirement.

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