Aaron Patterson ✅Mar 22, 2023
This might be a dumb question, but I can't seem to find the answer. What is the license of code generated by Copilot? Is it owned by GitHub, or the user? For example: Bison is GPL, but the parsers it generates aren't (and it specifically says so). Would be nice if Copilot was specific about ownership, but I can't find any info
Show threadVysogota
@tenderlove I've been asking myself this ever since GH started sending me unsolicited PRs with dependency updates...
Mar 22, 2023 at 10:03pmWeb
Show threadBobbyMcWhoMar 22, 2023
@petko @tenderlove Dependabot isn't AI generated though, it's all programmatically generated without any sort of training model
Show threadVysogotaMar 22, 2023

@BobbyMcWho, yes, you would think it would be clear for such trivial programatically-generated contributions... Do I assume the contribution is licensed under my repo's license? Who do I add as a contributor holding copyright over the contribution? Github? Microsoft? The authors of dependabot?

And these are questions for the trivial case, let alone for the ML model that rips off all open source code on GH... // @tenderlove