Amazon CodeWhisperer and Microsoft Github Copilot:

2022.7.4: news.adds/dev/CASE/
Amazon CodeWhisperer and Microsoft Github Copilot:

summary:

. AI is being used for CASE

(computer-assisted software engineering).

. it is being trained on opensource code

and then applies techniques used by that code

to the specific needs of your code.

. the resulting code is free of any licensing agreements

because is considered fair use 

unless the software ideas are protected by patents

rather than merely copyright or copyleft.

. Amazon CodeWhisperer may be able to tell you

the license of the project its ideas were lifted from,

but Microsoft Github Copilot claims all its code

is sourced from and licensed by an AI, 

not from the projects that the AI studied.

refs:

https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/

https://github.com/features/copilot/

https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/01/open-source-developers-urged-to-ditch-github-following-copilot-launch/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/23/amazon-launches-codewhisperer-its-ai-pair-programming-tool/

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/03/github-copilot-copyleft-gpl/

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/

https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/ai-assist/

https://lists.sfconservancy.org/pipermail/give-up-github/

software patents

pos.adds/software patents:
3.28: [my position pro-patents]
. I've heard Richard Stallman be
reasonable about patents,
explaining that the real problem with them
is an underfunded patent system
that doesn't bother to sort out
what's a complex of prior art works
from what is truly worthy of a patent .
. work that took so long to develop
surely would be more worthwhile to simply license
rather than trying to reinvent it!
. good patents, licensed fairly, could increase
the nation's productivity dramatically .

3.29: patent protections for the masses:
Open Invention Network®:

. an intellectual property company
that was formed to promote Linux
Patents are available royalty-free
to any company, institution or individual
that agrees not to assert its patents
against the Linux System.
. USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office)
now features a “Peer to Patent” process
that lets the public submit advice
for issuing or invalidating patents .

Linux Defenders

. eliminates bogus software patents
by implementing the work of the
Open Invention Network® .
. contributors to open-sourced patents
may freely use Linux Defenders'
defensive publication processor
and the Defensive Publications database
which contains patented openware searchable by
patent and trademark office examiners
around the world .

. the Linux Defenders program enables anyone
to efficiently contribute to:
“Defensive Publications”
where you can enter your openware inventions
into a db that will be searched by the patent office
so if there are no prior patents,
there will be no future patents on similar inventions .
“Peer to Patent”:
supplying the USPTO with evidence of
prior art invalidating the claims of
pending patent applications.
“Post-Issue Peer to Patent”:
supplying prior art to support the invalidation
of previously issued patents .