Until there is a definitive adjudication of the copyright status of LLM training data, it is *deeply irresponsible* to use Github Copilot for open source. I will refuse contributions created with it on any project I'm involved with, as well as permanently ban any user caught sneaking in Copilot-generated code in defiance of this rule. I would strongly encourage all maintainers to take this stand as well. License headaches are already bad enough without secret poison pills being injected.

@glyph Makes sense. Our lawyers told us to stay away from LLM generated code as well.

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@marcin @glyph But also, doesn't... If "clean room" programming is legal, then so could be the stories told by LLMs.

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