Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code?
The question is ultimately going to come down to - &quot;Is Copilot the same as a human programmer reading a lot of GPL code and rehashing, in a non-infringing way, the algorithms, functions, and designs used in a lot of FOSS? Or is Copilot performing more of a copy and paste pastiche of code that is protected by intellectual property law?&quot;<p>On a tangential note, I always find the discussions surrounding FOSS licenses and copyright rather amusing in a sad way. There&#x27;s a certain kind of entitlement a lot of people feel towards FOSS that they certainly do not express towards proprietary software and I imagine this a great source of the resentment and burn-out FOSS maintainers feel.