Home News Computing (Image credit: GitHub) Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI have been sued by programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick for breaking several policies, copyright terms, and laws that could amount to damages of over $9 billion. The claim alleges that GitHub Copilot (opens in new tab), which is designed to translate natural language into code, violates the terms of open source licenses by being trained with machine learning using billions of lines of existing code written by human programmers. BleepingComputer (opens in new tab) explains that open source licenses such as GPL, Apache, and MIT, require attribution of the… Click below to read the full story from TechRadar
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Microsoft is being sued over Github Copilot piracy
