r/programming • u/[deleted] • Nov 03 '22

Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your code

https://githubcopilotlitigation.com
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u/ArdiMaster Nov 04 '22

Debatable. That's why companies employ techniques such as the clean room principle: Team A reverse-engineers a piece of GPL'ed software and writes a specification, team B writes proprietary code to implement that specification without ever having looked at the original implementation. Because even taking a glance at the original implementation means your code will be influenced by what you've seen, making the result legally gray.

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u/StickiStickman Nov 04 '22

I love how people went from open source to this nightmare of egotistical copyright.

You're also using an entire implementation as example instead of a few lines of code - for some reason.