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Here's an example: https://twitter.com/ChrisGr93091552/status/15397316329318031...

> I checked if it had code I had written at my previous employer that has a license allowing its use only for free games and requiring attaching the license. yeah it does




That's a pretty bad example. He prompted it using the exact function header taken from the code he is complaining about.

It'd be much more interesting if he setup a function that was doing a similar thing but with different parameter types and names, and a different order of parameters (ie, like a real problem).


Does that matter? A code provided should be provided with the license needed to use the code, otherwise the user is opening themselves up to litigation.

Hence why I agree with another comment somewhere that Microsoft is banking on software developers not litigating about use of their open source code in closed source projects.




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