On the Possibility of Breaking Copyleft Licenses When Reusing Code Generated by ChatGPT
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| author | Colombo, Gaia Mariani, Leonardo Micucci, Daniela Riganelli, Oliviero |
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| contents | AI assistants can help developers by recommending code to be included in their implementations (e.g., suggesting the implementation of a method from its signature). Although useful, these recommendations may mirror copyleft code available in public repositories, exposing developers to the risk of reusing code that they are allowed to reuse only under certain constraints (e.g., a specific license for the derivative software). This paper presents a large-scale study about the frequency and magnitude of this phenomenon in ChatGPT. In particular, we generate more than 70,000 method implementations using a range of configurations and prompts, revealing that a larger context increases the likelihood of reproducing copyleft code, but higher temperature settings can mitigate this issue. |
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| spellingShingle | On the Possibility of Breaking Copyleft Licenses When Reusing Code Generated by ChatGPT Colombo, Gaia Mariani, Leonardo Micucci, Daniela Riganelli, Oliviero Software Engineering AI assistants can help developers by recommending code to be included in their implementations (e.g., suggesting the implementation of a method from its signature). Although useful, these recommendations may mirror copyleft code available in public repositories, exposing developers to the risk of reusing code that they are allowed to reuse only under certain constraints (e.g., a specific license for the derivative software). This paper presents a large-scale study about the frequency and magnitude of this phenomenon in ChatGPT. In particular, we generate more than 70,000 method implementations using a range of configurations and prompts, revealing that a larger context increases the likelihood of reproducing copyleft code, but higher temperature settings can mitigate this issue. |
| title | On the Possibility of Breaking Copyleft Licenses When Reusing Code Generated by ChatGPT |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05023 |