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		tluyben2 on July 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse? Well, if you chose a viral license like the GPL, you do not do that to have your code and knowledge being reused in a non viral (possibly closed source) licensed solution. So this is a fundamental issue at least GPL minded authors will definitely mind and fight against.

Dylan16807 on July 20, 2021 [–]

If you want to control knowledge you need a patent, not a copyright license.

(And the design of copilot is an attempt to extract only knowledge.)

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