---
title: "GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/github-copilot-emits-gpl-codeium-does-not--lgy4tazki
source_url: https://codeium.com/blog/copilot-trains-on-gpl-codeium-does-not
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2023-04-22T00:03:00.603Z
updated: 2023-04-22T00:03:00.601Z
tags: ["github", "mit", "legal"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 11
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not.

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 7 min read · 11 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

GitHub Copilot Emits GPL, non-permissive code, and how they relate to AI-powered code assistants. There are legal ramifications with a company’s developers violating GPL licenses, independent of intent. The argument to not do so is perhaps less clear - researchers say LLMs rarely spit out training data verbatim.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://codeium.com/blog/copilot-trains-on-gpl-codeium-does-not>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@kayokg** · 1 upvotes

> - I think this is amazing, because I use GitHub Copilot.

**@mugiwara** · 0 upvotes

> I've been using Github Copilot for Goland for a few months. The experience has been quite good but as the post highlights, I've been observing some latency issues with Goland 2023.1. Furthermore, sometimes the suggestions don't pop up when you're using split view mode.
>
> I'll give codeium a shot and see if it performs better than Copilot :)

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