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by ColonelPhantom 1309 days ago
> Also, how is that different from Google's scraping whole internet?

Many reasons: Google Search provides sources, it links to your website. Copilot only gives the content. Google also doesn't suggest including its search results in your product verbatim.
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tester756 1309 days ago
Thus, if Copilot showed original link to the code, then it'd be fine?
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ColonelPhantom 1308 days ago
Sure; companies would expect their employees to check the license. Remember that a lot of them consider GPL (especially AGPL) software "radioactive", so it will still effectively dissuade them.

However, it is likely that many engineers will skip checking their sources. I guess for this to work Copilot should include the attribution automatically in a comment.

The real problem is that doing this is not possible for Copilot, because the tool itself does not know the source.

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