[redwolf22]

I personally have no problem with Copilot. To me every source should be open for personal use. For commercial use this might causes a problem, Github profiting from established sourcecode under restrictive licenses. For me a neural network is using the same principles as the human brain. A network of cells generating an output using complex logic. Would you disallow a human that has read a copyleft sourcecode file to write code of similar structure? To me the answer is no. So I have no problem with Copilot. This is more of an ethical problem for me than a moral one. Moral wise you could force Microsoft to only train copilot on permissive licensed projects.

[fariszr]

The thing is, if Microsoft is actually confident in how copilot generate unique code and not just copies code from other things.

Why didn't they train it on office and windows code? In the end it doesn't matter the code copilot generates is unique, and isn't bind by any license right?

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