[jasone]

I really don't care if my code gets ingested and regurgitated by Copilot, but it seems rather a stretch to imagine that this is fair use, in part because it separates me from the legal protections afforded by the licenses I released my software under. In my ideal world, Copilot would be legally viable, and releasing my software without restriction wouldn't be risky.

As a long-time open source software developer, I have favored the 2-clause BSD and MIT licenses because they are the simplest licenses that provide me some liability protection. I would release code into the public domain if that didn't increase the likelihood of being sued, whether for liability, or for someone else claiming intellectual rights to code I actually wrote.

[xxs]

I still release under cc0, being copied verbatim is of no concern. Yet, I don't think reproducing somebody else code is 'fair use'