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

Open Source (OSS) is everywhere. Nowadays, hardly any project can be carried out economically if existing software packages are not reused. This is advantageous for software development: The usage of Open Source increases the speed of development, reduces costs, and very often is of higher quality then similar code written in-house due to extensive collaboration of many people. Open Source