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Doc link: https://jqwik.net/docs/current/user-guide.html#anti-ai-usage...

Yeah, this is just weird to me. I'm not exicted about our new LLM agent overlords, but this seems like a wild overreach by an open source project.

    > This project is not meant to be used by any “AI” coding agents at all.

They provide no reasoning. Ironically, this project is in maintenance mode, according to their GitHub README. So... just fork it, and comment out that message. It seems simple enough. This kind of "AI protection" just seems silly and childish. A bit like: "You can use my open source project, but only in the ways that I deem appropriate."

> The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.

https://www.json.org/license.html

That caveat is modestly famous in open source license law circles. More than a few companies have debated whether or not to allow that package to be used. Fortunately, there are many open source alternatives that do not include that same restriction.

Tangentially related: The commercial license for Java used to say that it was not allowed to be used in an nuclear power plant. I'm not sure if that restriction still exists today.

"No nukes" was Sun Microsystems lawyers' liability reduction, not a political statement.

See https://www.lawinsider.com/clause/note-on-java-support/_2 for the specific verbiage and diffs over time.

> "You can use my open source project, but only in the ways that I deem appropriate."

...so, a software license.

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