They own their code and it either has a license for use or is implicitly rights retained if not. If Copilot regurgitates their code, from a project that is public but with a non-permissive license they are having their IP rights violated so are totally correct in being unhappy about that.
Just because you’ve made something cool doesn’t give you the right to harm others in the process.
If MS or OpenAI don’t think this is the case then they should have also included their private repositories.
Just because you’ve made something cool doesn’t give you the right to harm others in the process.
If MS or OpenAI don’t think this is the case then they should have also included their private repositories.