I honestly admire the honesty here. In some ways it reads like an honest theft, but it's not. It's indeed how copyright works and thus far how it should work. It is true that things have changed and the economy is much different today. Following it it's a nature evolution indeed. This can mean copyright requires some changes, too, as everyone is updating the copyright law in the era of AI. This is no different from that.

It's legal right now. It should be in the foreseen future. But how far?

Quoting the closing clause:

> [...] maintained by a generation of developers who believed that sharing code was its own reward and have been comprehensively proven right about the sharing and wrong about the reward.
>
> We owe them a debt we have no intention of repaying. But we do, at least, have the decency to say thank you.
>
> So: thank you. Truly. We'll take it from here.

Look at this disclaimer:

> MalusCorp International Holdings Ltd. is not responsible for any moral implications, existential crises, or late-night guilt spirals resulting from the use of our services. The MalusCorp-0 License is provided "as is," much like the open source software it replaces, except that we charge for it.

In the end, I think if this is killing open source (not from this service, but the overall idea in the era of AI), copyright should be updated to somehow protect open source.