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SharePoint 2016 Enterprise CAL
FYI, if you decide to extend your new 2016 farm by making a hybrid with SP Online, the users licensing will need to be reassigned for O365.
You may want to use the recently announced Group licensing functionality in Azure AD, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-licensing-group-assignment-azure-portal - no powershell required :)
Not sure if this is relevant in your case but just to add if you go hybrid alongside Office 365 as Dean mentioned, have a look at this, assuming it still holds true:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/volume-licensing/2013/10/10/licensing-how-to-using-office-365-user-licenses-to-meet-cal-requirements/
"What happens if I buy Office 365 but continue to run on premises workloads for certain products? The basic licensing concept is if you’ve purchased a User Subscription License for an Office 365 Service, that user is licensed to access the equivalent workload(s) running on premises. While the applicable application server CALs are not included in the Office 365 User subscription License, a CAL equivalency use right is included to access the on premises application server."
This goes by various names - “dual use rights,” “on premises use rights,” or “on premises access rights”. For example, an Office 365 Enterprise E3 licence includes, if this is right, a SharePoint Server Enterprise CAL for on premises functionality.
