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Alikont t1_iv0oi1g wrote

Reply to comment by CapaneusPrime 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

> includes elements lifted from elsewhere without attribution—stackoverflow

Users of Stackoverflow sign that their code snippets are public and no attribution is required as a part of Stackoverflow TOS

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CapaneusPrime t1_iv0t6pr wrote

You missed the point, I'm not making a spurious "whataboutism" claim.

Attribution is required by copyright.

If I take a snippet of code from stackoverflow and put it in my open source project, that's fine.

Nobody is saying it isn't.

What isn't fine is slapping a license on a file which includes that code without specifying that that code isn't subject to the license—that's claiming ownership of something which isn't yours and trying to attach a license to it.

Beyond that, you really need to re-read the stackoverflow ToS, because they don't quite say what you seem to think.

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