“We’re investigating a potential lawsuit against GitHub Copilot for violating its legal duties to open-source authors and end users.”
Matthew Butterick reactivated his California bar membership to go after Copilot with a class-action firm. Codex was trained on tens of millions of public repos, and open-source licenses come with conditions like attribution. Copilot strips all of that and sells the output for a monthly fee. Microsoft calls it suggestions. The licenses call it copying.