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<p>Nik:<br>
Please clarify if you want to have a discussion on this license
prior to submission, or if you are submitting it for approval. If
the former, then it the will be withdrawn from the approval
process. If the latter, then you'll need to provide all the
information required for license approval for this license.</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/13/2026 12:05 PM, Nik wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Apologize, my mistake. I'm new to mailing lists and
sent this to both addresses.<br>
This proposal is currently up for discussion, and if the
community agrees, the final text can be submitted for review and
registration after discussion, as I understand it.
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<div>Nik</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">\u043f\u0442, 13 \u043c\u0430\u0440. 2026\u202f\u0433. \u0432 18:32,
Pamela Chestek <<a
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<div> McCoy, I also have an email where it was submitted to
license-review on 3/12/26 at 5:30 pm PT?<br>
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Pam<br>
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<div>On 3/13/2026 9:10 AM, McCoy Smith wrote:<br>
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<p>Nik:</p>
<p>Are you requesting approval of this license by OSI, or
just discussion of the license? You've submitted to the
license-discuss list, which is where licenses are
discussed, but does not result in the license being put
through the approval process. Your statement that you
are "submitting" the license "for consideration" is
ambiguous.</p>
<p>If you are seeking approval, you need to use the
correct mailing list and provide all the data required
for a submission, which has not been done in your e-mail
below.</p>
<div>On 3/12/2026 4:20 AM, Nik wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear OSI License Review Committee,<br>
<br>
I am submitting the **AI-MIT License, Version 1.0**
for consideration by the Open Source Initiative.<br>
<br>
## Summary<br>
<br>
The AI-MIT License is a permissive open-source license
designed to address a genuine gap: existing licenses
were written for human authors and handle AI-generated
code poorly, creating false implications about
authorship and copyright status.<br>
<br>
The license is deliberately minimal \u2014 it preserves the
structure and permissiveness of the MIT License while
adding three targeted changes for the AI context.<br>
<br>
## The problem it solves<br>
<br>
1. **False authorship implication.** When `Copyright
(c) [year] [author]` is applied to fully AI-generated
code, it implies human authorship and copyright that
may not legally exist in most jurisdictions.<br>
<br>
2. **No standard for disclosure.** There is no widely
adopted mechanism for disclosing whether code is
AI-generated, AI-assisted, or human-authored. This
matters for supply-chain security, regulatory
compliance (EU AI Act), and intellectual honesty in
open source.<br>
<br>
3. **Undefined copyright status.** Fully autonomous
AI-generated code (no human creative input) is in a
legal grey zone in most jurisdictions. A license that
claims copyright over it is at best misleading, at
worst invalid.<br>
<br>
## What the license does differently from MIT<br>
<br>
The license adds one structural element (the
Authorship Declaration) and three conditions/clauses:<br>
<br>
**Authorship Declaration** \u2014 a required checkbox at
the top of the LICENSE file with three modes:<br>
- *Fully AI-generated*: no copyright claimed; code
dedicated to public domain<br>
- *AI-assisted*: human-directed, AI-generated;
standard copyright applies<br>
- *Human-authored*: AI used as a tool only; identical
to MIT posture<br>
<br>
**Condition 2 \u2014 Transparency**: redistribution or use
as AI training data must not misrepresent AI origin as
human authorship.<br>
<br>
**Condition 3 \u2014 No Copyright Claim**: for fully
autonomous code, explicit public domain dedication
(with a perpetual irrevocable fallback for
jurisdictions where public domain dedication is
impossible).<br>
<br>
**Extended disclaimer**: adds three AI-specific
disclaimers about training data provenance, regulatory
compliance, and jurisdictional limitations of the
authorship declaration.<br>
<br>
## OSD compliance analysis<br>
<br>
1. **Free Redistribution** \u2713 \u2014 no restriction on sale
or distribution<br>
2. **Source Code** \u2713 \u2014 no source restriction<br>
3. **Derived Works** \u2713 \u2014 modification and
redistribution permitted<br>
4. **Integrity of the Author's Source Code** \u2713 \u2014 no
patch-file requirement; attribution preserved<br>
5. **No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups** \u2713<br>
6. **No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor** \u2713<br>
7. **Distribution of License** \u2713 \u2014 same rights apply
to all recipients<br>
8. **License Must Not Be Specific to a Product** \u2713<br>
9. **License Must Not Restrict Other Software** \u2713<br>
10. **License Must Be Technology-Neutral** \u2713<br>
<br>
The Transparency condition (Condition 2) requires
disclosure of AI origin but does not restrict use in
any field \u2014 it is an attribution/honesty requirement,
not a field-of-endeavor restriction.<br>
<br>
## SPDX identifier
<div><br>
We are concurrently requesting the SPDX identifier
`AI-MIT-1.0` through the SPDX GitHub repository.<br>
<br>
## Repository</div>
<div><br>
The full license text, README, translations, and
supporting materials are available at: <br>
<a
href="https://github.com/ai-mit-license/ai-mit-license" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/ai-mit-license/ai-mit-license</a><br>
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## A note on meta-context</div>
<div><br>
This license was initially drafted with AI
assistance (Claude, Anthropic) at the direction of a
human. We believe this is appropriate and have
disclosed it in the repository. The license is
itself an example of the category of work it
governs.<br>
<br>
We welcome feedback from the committee and the
community at large.<br>
<br>
Respectfully, <font color="#888888"><font
color="#888888"><br>
Nik </font></font></div>
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