github copilot has, by their own admission, been trained on mountains of gpl code, so i'm unclear on how it's not a form of laundering open source code into commercial works. the handwave of "it usually doesn't reproduce exact chunks" is not very satisfying
Of course not. This is not how copyright law works.
shouldn’t it at least become public domain? :(
Just create a license which adds a clausule setting that and ask some lawyer dedicated to it.
Just like the AGPL came with a clausule over the GPL for the server side.
copilot itself? Still no. Copyright applies to creative work made by humans. The copyright of copilot belongs to microsoft and that’s it.