Developer Perspectives on Licensing and Copyright Issues Arising from Generative AI for Coding

Stalnaker, Trevor, Wintersgill, Nathan, Chaparro, Oscar, Heymann, Laura A., Di Penta, Massimiliano, German, Daniel M, Poshyvanyk, Denys

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

Several GenAI coding assistants, including GitHub's Copilot [45], Tabnine [119], Codeium [24], and Cody [25], as well as general purpose tools such as ChatGPT [100], Claude [11], and Gemini [42], have become readily accessible, either as IDE extensions or standalone applications, enabling developers to perform many coding tasks with little effort, including automated code completion, summarization, and debugging.