There are legal ramifications with a company’s developers violating GPL licenses, independent of intent.īut things have been muddled thanks to generative AI and LLMs. There are a bunch of reasons why an OSS maintainer would choose non permissive over permissive or vice versa, but that’s not the point - this is simply what the law is. MIT, BSD, Apache) means you actually can legally use that code for whatever, including commercial reasons, but non-permissive licenses such as GPL mean that you cannot without consent. OSS licenses define acceptable use of the particular library - permissive licenses (ex. But just because some code is public does not automatically mean it can be used for commercial purposes without permission. To start, what is GPL (General Public License)? By definition, open source software (OSS) is, well, open. GPL, non-permissive code, and how they relate to AI-powered code assistants
TL DR GitHub Copilot trains on GPL code and its nonpermissive filters don’t actually work, while we at Codeium have removed GPL licensed code from our training data, guaranteeing peace of mind to our users.
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