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The license and attribution are stripped from regurgitated copied code snippets from code projects.

If the people don’t known which project the code was taken from, how can they one day contribute to that codebase?

If the code projects on GitHub are not getting the people who use their code at least aware of the project, that project disappears.

Copilot is an interloper who doesn’t even tell you which project the code snippet was ripped off from!!



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