>> Yes, software copyright and patents are a mistake.
Richard Stallman would agree, but there are many of us who make a living writing software.
Is software valuable enough that people will pay money for it?
If you write original software that solves a problem, shouldn't you be able to license it how you want and profit from it?
You are welcome to license the software you create how you want. Let me license the software I create how I want.
If I dual license my software as GPL and commercial and GitHub Copilot reproduces my GPLed code without attribution and without the license, how it that not copyright violation?
>> How often do you give attribution to inventors of patterns you use in your software?
If GitHub Copilot was only "copying patterns" then it would be a lot harder to call it copyright violation and misappropriation of existing code.
And yet that is exactly what GitHub Copilot has been accused of doing: recreating copyrighted works without attribution and in violation of the licenses that the code was released under:
Richard Stallman would agree, but there are many of us who make a living writing software.
Is software valuable enough that people will pay money for it?
If you write original software that solves a problem, shouldn't you be able to license it how you want and profit from it?
You are welcome to license the software you create how you want. Let me license the software I create how I want.
If I dual license my software as GPL and commercial and GitHub Copilot reproduces my GPLed code without attribution and without the license, how it that not copyright violation?