It's not transformative at all, nor quoted for study/discussion, and that's exactly what makes it a problem.
If the snippets merely had attribution, they'd be both legal and acceptable to most open source authors.
The code is not transformative because the quoted code is not used for some other purpose like as part of an article discussing whatever the code does, it is used to do exactly it's original job.
If you wrote a book by quoting choice paragraphs from other books, without crediting any of them, presenting the new book as simply your pile of deep insights, that is not transformative, even though your book is not the same as any single of the source books. It's also not fair use, even though all the quoted bits are short, both because of the usage and the lack of accreditation.
We could have something like copilot just fine if done above board, but as it is right now github are simply outlaw and with no excuse at all.
If the snippets merely had attribution, they'd be both legal and acceptable to most open source authors.
The code is not transformative because the quoted code is not used for some other purpose like as part of an article discussing whatever the code does, it is used to do exactly it's original job.
If you wrote a book by quoting choice paragraphs from other books, without crediting any of them, presenting the new book as simply your pile of deep insights, that is not transformative, even though your book is not the same as any single of the source books. It's also not fair use, even though all the quoted bits are short, both because of the usage and the lack of accreditation.
We could have something like copilot just fine if done above board, but as it is right now github are simply outlaw and with no excuse at all.