[$] GitHub is my copilot

Your editor has worked in the computing field for rather longer than hecares to admit; for all of that time it has been said that a day will comewhen all that tedious programming work will no longer be necessary.Instead, we'll just say what we want and the computer will figure it out.Arguably, the announcement of GitHubCopilot takes us another step in that direction. On the way, though,it raises some interesting questions about copyright and free-softwarelicensing.