[JoshTriplett]

> I would prefer to see full license attributions included in generated responses, though. Something that then also wouldn't be that difficult to generate a licenses file from?

Exactly. By all means build tools like this, but build them to actually comply with Open Source licenses. Provide a list of the licenses you don't mind copying from, and get back attributions with your suggestions.

[danuker]

Suppose Copilot offered some pure-MIT licensed flavor.

Copilot could comply with MIT licenses by just outputting an MIT license with ALL the authors of code used in training.

[JoshTriplett]

That'd be a valid solution, if impractical. I doubt that people would be willing to copy hundreds of thousands of license notices into their project.

[danuker]

One perspective is that those authors actually contributed to the end result.

But sure, disk size could be a problem.

[JoshTriplett]

> One perspective is that those authors actually contributed to the end result.

They absolutely did, yes. The approach you're suggesting would work from a legal perspective, but the size might pose practical problems.