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GitHub Copilot, Copyright Infringement and Open Source Licensing
Users of GitHub Copilot can produce source code subject to license requirements without attributing and licensing the code to the rights holder.
- Date it happened
- 2021-06-29
- Organisation involved
- GitHub, programmers
Where this came from
Attribution
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