We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot
If GitHub ends up having to tweak their product to avoid ethical/legal concerns, I actually imagine it could still be pretty cool. Right now Copilot is a black box that spits out code with no attributes; what if they worked on instead making it a glass box, where it always brings up snippets of other projects along with their licensing info so that you can decide how to incorporate the ideas fairly yourself? Or they could still output the same code suggestions, but always include attribution and license data along with it. Making the product more transparent would probably make more people comfortable with using it, anyway.