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by sharts 18 days ago
Does that mean using IDE auto-completes renders your code property of VSCode, IntelliJ, etc.?
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Let's roll out the next dumb cope that every vibe coder replies with... code templates. Code templates are generated by humans. Did you know that copyright law applies to them and if the code template is GPL, then the code it generates is also GPL? Oh, you didn't know that, did you?

https://opensource.org/license/gpl-2.0

>the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program

Read your licenses.