Codeium is a coding assistant that, unlike GitHub’s Copilot, excludes GPL and other non-permissive code from its training data, reports David Ramel.
“While GitHub Copilot is trained on GPL-licensed code, GitHub uses non-permissive filters to screen out potentially problematic code,” Ramel says. However, Codeium says those filters don't work and that GitHub produces coding suggestions in violation of non-permissive licenses like the GPL.
Codeium, which is developed by Exafunction, does not emit code with non-permissive licensing, the company says.
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