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Oh, I disagree. The GNU GPL, which is one of the most widely used open source licenses, is a copyleft license. In practice, this means that any software which uses GPL code (a derivative work) also falls under the GPL and must abide by its terms. In purely private (or internal) use—with no sales and no distribution—the software code may be modified and parts reused without requiring the source code to be released. For sales or distribution, the entire source code needs to be made available to end users, including any code changes and additions—in that case, copyleft is applied to ensure that end users retain the freedoms defined above. Only if GPL-licensed parts are used in a program (and the program is distributed) must all other source code of the program be made available under the same license terms. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License Therefore, if a code generating model uses any code derived from GPL projects, the generated code is also GPL and must be made available if the code is to be distributed. The GPL specifically obligates release of the source code. Considering how widely and indiscriminately the scraping has been done to feed training data into the bots, the burden should be on Microsoft to prove that any generated code they use is not derived from any GPL code.