chasingourselves t1_iv0gju2 wrote on November 4, 2022 at 11:15 AM

Reply to comment by ReasonablyBadass in [N] Class-action lawsuit filed against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI regarding the legality of GitHub Copilot, an AI-using tool for programmers by Wiskkey

The problem is that many open source licenses are mutually incompatible— e.g. Affero GPL vs BSD vs GPLv3. So you’d need per-snippet code licensing.

farmingvillein t1_iv1ye88 wrote on November 4, 2022 at 5:49 PM

Which seems like a solvable, albeit terribly painful, problem?

If this is the direction that things end up going, honestly this will ultimately only be massively in the favor of OpenAI (and a small # of very well-funded competitors), as it will create a very, very painful barrier to entry.