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Comment by schnebbau | Hacker News Reader

Newsflash everyone, if you open source your code it's going to be copied or paraphrased anyway.

It should be copied and paraphrased, but respecting the license. This means, among other things, crediting the author.

It may be hard to believe, but there are sick and twisted individuals in this dangerous world who copy from github without even a single glance at the license, and they live among us.

Yes, and those people are violating the licenses of the code when they do that. It's not unreasonable to expect a massive company like microsoft to not do this on a massive scale.

There are always exceptions (maybe they might be norm in this case) but its still not 100%, still not all encompassing. This "AI" seems to be. I think that is like the entire concern. ALL the code is affected for all the instances.

I think the issue many people may have with this is it's a proprietary tool that profits on work it was not licensed to use this way.

What does that have to with the topic? The question is not whether it gets copied, the question is whether it gets pirated.

Yes that's the point.

But if I do it under a copyleft license like GPL, I expect those who copy to abide by the license and open source their own code too.

But sure, people shit on IP rights all the time, and I am guilty of it too. Let's say I didn't pay what I should have paid for every piece of software I have used.

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