> From: Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 07:41:21 +0000 > > > It cannot be a verbatim copy, because at least the variables, and > > sometimes also the data types, need to be renamed. Whether the result > > is still under the original copyright cannot be established without > > actually comparing the two versions of the code. So any general > > flat rejection of the idea of these services on these grounds is not > > serious, IMO. > > Not necessarily, if it generates a pure, top-level function. Someone > could type something like "Sort list of postcodes" and it generates a > Radix Sort function. And if this is part of some code that was copied a > lot, the model might tend to generate this verbatim even more likely.
A sort function must state at least the data type before it can be compiled. And if you are talking about pseudo-code that is data-type agnostic, then that's an algorithm, and is not copyrightable, AFAIK.
