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   Aaron Patterson ✅ (tenderlove@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 05:40:49 JST Aaron Patterson ✅

   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

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     Aaron Patterson ✅ (tenderlove@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 05:40:49 JST Aaron Patterson ✅

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     The reason I'm curious about this is because I'd like to know whether or not it's OK to accept OSS contributions from people that used Copilot. Does the author actually have permission to give me the code they sent? (Also I wish I didn't have to think about this)

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     Lukas Spieß (lumaxis@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 05:52:12 JST Lukas Spieß

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     @tenderlove »The code, functions, and other output returned to you by GitHub Copilot are called “Suggestions.” GitHub does not claim any rights in Suggestions, and you retain ownership of and responsibility for Your Code, including Suggestions you include in Your Code.«

     https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-for-additional-products-and-features#github-copilot