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Good idea.

The MIT license and other "pushover" licenses was built in the pre-LLM era.

I don't think it is fit for purpose anymore since now maintainers are getting burnt out and most code is now being generated from OSS.

A new OSS license for the AI age must be made for newer libraries, projects and existing projects that want to change licenses.

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The AI companies claim that training is fair use, so no license can prevent what is happening with AIs. It would require a clarification in copyright law that AI models are considered derivative works, and that AI generated code is a derivative work of the model and the prompt. That seems unlikely to ever happen though.

What new license would you make that isn't already covered by existing ones?