{"id":36348,"date":"2022-06-24T16:21:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36348"},"modified":"2022-06-24T16:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T20:21:29","slug":"github-copilot-is-generally-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/24\/github-copilot-is-generally-available\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Copilot Is Generally Available"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Dohmke<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Today, I am thrilled to announce that we are making GitHub Copilot<\/a> generally available to individual developers. Your AI pair programmer is here.<\/p>\n

With GitHub Copilot, for the first time in the history of software, AI can be broadly harnessed by developers to write and complete code. Just like the rise of compilers and open source, we believe AI-assisted coding will fundamentally change the nature of software development, giving developers a new tool to write code easier and faster so they can be happier in their lives.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

GitHub Copilot wouldn’t be possible without GitHub’s vibrant community of students and creators. To support and give back to those communities, we’re making GitHub Copilot available for free to verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

FOSS Post<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Some open source software developers argued that the resulting neural networks is a derivative work of the GPL work, and hence, should be demanded to be released under the GPL license as well.<\/p>

GitHub’s current CEO said that from their point of view, they see this as a part of “fair use”; which implies that using few lines of modified codes from a public source code is not enough to establish any type of lawsuits against them[…]<\/p>

However, others argue that the neural network outputs (on the average of a 0.1% probability<\/a>) copy-pasted snippets from various repositories on GitHub, and hence, it can not fall under fair use[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

ReinH<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

github copilot is incredible. it just sells code other people wrote, but because it’s an “AI” it is apparently allowed to launder that code without it being a “derivative work”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n