[License-discuss] Pre-submission discussion: Model Chain Attribution License (MCAL)

[Roland Turner]

On 16/10/26 20:52, Михаил Чернов wrote:

> The MCAL proposes a different mechanism to address this. Instead of 
> requiring a license file or a copyright notice in every artifact, it 
> requires a structured, machine-readable Attribution Record. This is a 
> single, extensible JSON, YAML, or XML file that lists the artifact's 
> upstream dependencies, their licenses, and their relationship types 
> (e.g., "trained-on", "derived-from"). The record propagates 
> automatically through the chain: from dataset to model to application.

I don't yet have a view on whether your proposed licensing strategy is 
useful, but with respect to the attribution record, I'd suggest that 
you're largely reproducing existing work in SPDX —   and to some extent 
ClycloneDX — and that it might be worth amending your non-normative 
example to suit, perhaps even referencing those examples.

- Roland