That means GitHub and other software development companies have largely dodged claims by anonymous code writers that their coding assistant violated open source licenses protecting their work. The ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license.

GitHub Copilot has changed how developers write their code. However, it can also create issues when it creates code similar to what’s already available in another public repository.

At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot that can autocomplete entire functions based on only a ...