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> What is astonishing about the current debate is that the calls for the broadest possible interpretation of copyright are now coming from within the Free Software community.

It is not astonishing at all given:

* proprietary codebase have not been indexed by copilot (at least a public version of it)

* arguably derived code will be used in proprietary programs

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Yah, not sure what is astonishing about outrage in response to what appears to be a method for laundering GPL'd software.

Copilot ought only to have indexed public domain, wtf, and other wide-open licensed software. They should remove all GPL'd software from their model, even if that means retraining from scratch.

It's not just GPL, they arguably should remove MIT, BSD and most other Open Source software too, as it's hard to tell when any given snippet crosses a threshold where the original license demands attribution or other things. People seem to forget that even MIT license has actual conditions in it.

Not just GPL, even works with MIT/Apache/BSD license require attribution

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