[License-review] [SUBMISSION] AI-MIT License 1.0 — permissive license for AI-generated code

[Josh Berkus]

On 3/14/26 9:36 AM, Joshua Gay via License-review wrote:
> On file level rules
> 
> Relatedly, framing authorship and licensing at the level of individual 
> files does not reflect how software authorship actually works. Files are 
> implementation artifacts, not reliable boundaries of authorship nor even 
> a reliable way to distinguish between modular components of a work.
> 
> A "file" in the context of software is a helpful metaphor for computer 
> users but not a useful way to discuss a literary work in a legal sense.

File-level attribution is a common approach across many popular open 
source licenses, including the APL2.0, one of the top three most used 
licenses in the catalog.

If you have a better approach for "distinguishing between modular 
components of a work", please share it, because it hasn't appeared in 
any accepted license yet.

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Josh Berkus