Copilot, an artificial intelligence-based system for automatically generating source code, has just been sued for $9 billion in damages for „software piracy.“ This amount is based on a calculation from 3.5 million copyright infringements allegedly committed by the system, at the compensation of $2,500 damages per case. What is the background? Artificial intelligence (AI) is now appearing in all areas

Identifying all copyright holders, licenses and license obligations within a Linux distribution is one of the most complex and tedious audit activities. In earlier Linux versions, before version 4.19, many source files in the tree are missing licensing information. This makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license, and a manual audit is very time consuming. By