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by cmeacham98 1307 days ago
I see that your lawyers have reviewed the licensing terms. Great!

However, have they reviewed Microsoft's claims that their use of code for Copilot is open source? And if they have, is there somewhere I can read that analysis?

Now, Microsoft could be wrong on that claim, but until someone convinces me otherwise I'm going to assume their lawyers did their due diligence and they're correct. If Microsoft is correct about that it doesn't matter what you put in your license, and thus this is useless.

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I don't know how I missed this but I can't edit my comment now, I meant to say

"their use of code for Copilot is open source" -> "their use of code for Copilot is __fair use__"

Yeah this is about as effective as making a FB post saying "I hereby revoke Meta's permission to use my photos". It's a surprisingly common theme on /r/oldpeoplefacebook