> The crux of the issue, and a bone of contention in the software development sphere since its debut last year, is that Copilot is a proprietary service built on top of the hard work of the open source community.

I don't understand this argument, because you could use the same one for basically any SaaS product that uses open source code.

However, this quote is more convincing:

> “Open source” doesn’t mean a complete free-for-all, and there are still license requirements to fulfil and attributions to include, so if Copilot “borrows” code from one project and suggests it to the author of another project, will this open the floodgates to copyright infringement lawsuits?

The "copyright infringement lawsuits" point aside, which I don't think applies to license issues, I think this raises a good point. Will it tell you which attributions to give, and will it respect licenses that require you to distribute code you make if you use that code (e.g. GPL), maybe by either warning you or allowing you to filter out code from those kinds of repositories?