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by kube-system 1620 days ago
MIT and BSD are established and well accepted licenses, literally named after the academic institutions where they originated. Licenses are legal documents, part of what makes them "explicit what everyone understands" is their legally recognized establishment.

If you want to set expectations, this can simply be done in a README. Putting this in a license makes no sense. Copyright licenses grant exceptions to copyright law. If you're adding something else to it, you're muddying the water, not making it better.