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Yes, that added clause is nonsense. On top of being nonsense, there is significant precedent.

Remember the lawsuit of HiQ labs vs LinkedIn? Scraping, or viewing public data on a public webpage is legal.

https://gizmodo.com/linkedin-scraping-data-legal-court-case-...

If the GPL can defeat Copilot, we need an more permissive MIT/BSD-style license to do the same.

This does seem like a pretty compelling rebuttal, since the preceding comment suggests that GPL does nothing to Microsoft's ability to incorporate code into Copilot's model.

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