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by NoraCodes 654 days ago
> Isn’t the game with licenses that you must specify what can and cannot be done with the code?

No, not at all. Microsoft's argument is that training an LLM on code is fair use, and thus doesn't trigger copyright-based licensing at all. That's why they include unlicensed code in Copilot, which under a training-triggers-copyright theory they have no right to at all.

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Thanks for the clarification.