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It seems like there's no good license that places absolutely no restrictions or requirements on people using your code (such as attribution and respecting patent rights) worldwide.

I want my code to be used the way people treated text in the old days. There's texts that have been re-written, added to and edited by thousands of people over the centuries and yet they don't come with thousands of pages of attribution notices because why would they?

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You don't need to license it, you can just publish it with a declaration that as the author, you are releasing your work in to the public domain. However, in terms of licensing I believe MIT is the most permissive.

MIT still requires the license text to be included with the source. Copilot, if it is not fair use, violates the license of MIT code it re-emits.

Okay, so just take "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software" out of MIT and call it the Do Whatever You Want Licence. You're not obliged as an author / copyright holder to impose restrictions on people using your work if you don't want to.

Whether Copilot is breaching MIT depends on what constitutes a substantial portion, which I am not qualified to rule on.

CC0 or unlicense, probably. Although I concede that it's hard to do in all jurisdictions globally.

Just put it in the public domain.

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