Whenever it comes to things like legal issues or regulations, people take such pride in being someone who understands their intricacies that the larger picture is missed. We should think about what outcome we actually want.
While technically any snippet of code can claim a copyright, it's sort of ridiculous to suggest the snippets that Copilot generates has any protectable value.
Practically Copilot is saving you the labor of writing fairly trivial but tedious code. I work on open source full time, there's no random snippet of code that I've written I'd feel upset about if someone copied.
While technically any snippet of code can claim a copyright, it's sort of ridiculous to suggest the snippets that Copilot generates has any protectable value.
Practically Copilot is saving you the labor of writing fairly trivial but tedious code. I work on open source full time, there's no random snippet of code that I've written I'd feel upset about if someone copied.
Licenses on software are mostly performative.