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In case it's not clear what's happening here:

's Copilot "autocompletes" the fast inverse square root implementation from Quake III — which is GPL2+ code. It then autocompletes a BSD2 license comment (with the wrong copyright holder). This is fine.

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Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

Jul 2, 2021

I don't want to say anything but that's not the right license Mr Copilot.

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I'm afraid this will create a mis-re-licensing hell, where everyone will claim they've been fooled by Copilot, and MS will say licensees should revise the code for licenses themselves.

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Or the efficacy of any FOSS licenses trends towards nil because of all the chaos and then MS has finally FUD'd open source.

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a major intelectual property violation tool . What could be done so that it is taken seriously?

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vocês gringo são tudo não me toque

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Oops woopsie, our code monkeys are working WEAWY HAWD to build a verbatim-stealing-identification tool because ML totally works most of the time we swear, please don't look behind the curtain