Just to play devil's advocate, I wonder if copilot could lead to more advancements if it helps users with patterns of coding style that they may not have considered without it. Or if what it copies is an amount that if a human user did it, would still not be something that would infringe a license. But I really have no idea, copilot is something I know almost zero about.
I was wondering if the $44 per year "team" account could be used to make code public, but I can't tell from the description of it if that is possible, and besides that's a high cost yearly just to publish and maintain open source.
There is also GitLab (not owned by Microsoft as far as I know), and it's what a lot of businesses use, and it has a free account, so that could be a good alternative. There are some limits like 5 GB, but that seems generous for a free account.
