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The author is a copyright lawyer by trade as well a software developer so he understands both problem spaces; he identifies several glaring legal defects in the BSD and MIT licenses; and together with a group of other copyright lawyers developed a license that addresses all of those shortcomings. If I were in his shoes I would promote it too.

Of course he had. Check https://blueoakcouncil.org/about Kyle Mitchell who wrote that MIT license deprecation article is also the one who developed Blue Oak license.

No, MIT license is not deprecated. Ton of FOSS projects use it and will continue to use it.

It’s not “deprecated” in any official sense, but it has several legal defects that in 2023 ought to remove it from consideration for use as a permissive license in nearly all cases.

> Kyle Mitchell who wrote that MIT license deprecation article is also the one who developed Blue Oak license.

OK, well, if that's not good enough for you: The other two Blue Oak board members listed at that site — Heather Meeker and Luis Villa — both have serious reputations in this field.

(Disclosure: Kyle Mitchell is a friend, and both a good lawyer and a good guy.)

The author has 42 licenses to promote, by my count.