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docs: relicense to MPL-2.0, park AI-marker disclosure as project policy (#1409)

GAIEST v1.2 (MIT + copyleft + a novel AI-authorship-disclosure condition)
was never OSI-reviewed. Keeping the disclosure condition makes any draft
a full new-license OSI submission regardless of base text (no lightweight
path exists for adding restrictions to an approved license, unlike GPLv3
§7's additional-permissions mechanism) - that's slower, harder, riskier
work than this project needs resolved today.

Interim move: adopt MPL-2.0 verbatim (already OSI-approved, no review
needed, file-level copyleft so a separate work merely depending on this
code isn't dragged open with it). The AI-authorship-marker convention
moves from a license condition to a project policy (docs/ai-markers.md,
CLAUDE.md) - social/reputational weight, not legal weight, until a
purpose-drafted successor (provisionally still named GAIEST) clears
proper legal review and an actual OSI submission. That longer-term
drafting work is tracked separately.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Paul Campbell bb58a29c70a9cd25e2cfa42c390cf657d68589eb parent d43b1d0
4 files changed, +409 −145
  • CLAUDE.md +3 −2
  • LICENSE +374 −119
  • README.md +14 −9
  • docs/ai-markers.md +18 −15
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 47de343..21243d7 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -318,8 +318,9 @@ through `shell.js`.
Prose in this repo carries an authorship marker, so a reader (human or agent)
can tell who wrote what — and so a human can **fence text off** from AI rewriting.
-(The formal, versioned form of this convention — the one the `LICENSE`'s
-Condition 3 binds — is `docs/ai-markers.md`; keep the two in step.)
+(The formal, versioned form of this convention is `docs/ai-markers.md` — a
+project policy, not currently a licence condition; see `README.md § Licence`
+for why. Keep the two in step.)
- **🤖 — written by an LLM.** Always **visible**, immediately before the heading,
paragraph, or section it applies to (`# 🤖 Title`, or a leading `🤖 ` on a
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 4360182..570135f 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,119 +1,374 @@
-🤖 THE GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EVOLVING SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY LICENCE
-
-Version 1.2. SPDX-style identifier: LicenseRef-GAIEST-1.2 (versions 1.1 and
-earlier were published as the GAI Licence). Based on the MIT
-Licence, in the spirit of Factor VI of the Eleven Factors
-(https://11factor.org). The canonical text and version history of this
-licence are published at https://11factor.org/gaiest-licence (the "licence
-URL").
-
-Copyright (c) 2026 Paul Campbell and the Eleven Messenger contributors
-
-
-PREAMBLE (interpretive context only; not an operative term)
-
-Generative artificial intelligence is trained on the combined knowledge of
-all of humanity. Every line it writes is distilled from the accumulated work
-of billions of people who contributed their knowledge, writings, and works
-in public. What it derives from that inheritance must be returned to
-humanity. This licence is the MIT Licence with two additions: any derivative
-of this work that is passed on to others must be passed on open, under this
-licence; and material written by generative artificial intelligence keeps
-its authorship marker. Any software derived from this software must also
-carry this licence.
-
-The Software is a work of all of human authorship combined: humans directed,
-selected, arranged, and edited it, whatever tools wrote the lines.
-
-
-DEFINITIONS
-
-"Generative AI" means any system that produces code or other content from a
-machine-learned model, however invoked.
-
-"Derivative Work" means a modified version of the Software, or a work
-incorporating all or a substantial portion of it. Running or self-hosting
-the Software, modified or not, or building a separate work that merely
-depends on it or communicates with it through its interfaces, does not by
-itself create or Distribute a Derivative Work.
-
-"Distribute" means to give a copy of a work, in source or compiled form, to
-any third party.
-
-"Publicly available" means obtainable by any member of the public at no
-charge and on no conditions beyond this Licence — a public source
-repository, or a complete source archive plainly linked from wherever the
-work is offered, each suffice.
-
-"Complete source code" means the preferred form of a work for making
-modifications to it, including the scripts needed to build it, but not
-secrets, credentials, or signing keys.
-
-"Marker Specification" means version 1.0 of the AI-authorship marker
-convention distributed with the Software (docs/ai-markers.md) and published
-at the licence URL. In brief: a visible 🤖 — or its plain-text form,
-"[AI]" — marks material written by Generative AI, and a marker on a heading
-covers the material beneath it.
-
-
-TERMS
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-1. Notice. The above copyright notice and this permission notice — meaning
- this entire TERMS section, Conditions 1 to 3 inclusive — shall be
- included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-2. Owned by humanity. If you Distribute a Derivative Work, you must:
- (a) make its complete source code Publicly available for as long as you
- continue to Distribute it — the obligation ends when you stop; and
- (b) license it under this Licence. The commons wrote it with you; when
- you pass it on, it returns to the commons.
-
-3. Disclosure. In source form, copies and Derivative Works must preserve
- the AI-authorship markers the Software carries, as defined by the Marker
- Specification, on material they still accurately describe; a marker may
- be removed where a human has substantially rewritten the material it
- marks. Material in the Software or a Derivative Work written by
- Generative AI must not be affirmatively presented as human-written — the
- absence of a marker is not such a claim. Compiled or minified artifacts
- need not carry markers.
-
-This Licence terminates automatically if you materially breach it and fail
-to cure the breach within 30 days after a copyright holder notifies you of
-it; it is reinstated in full on cure. The Eleven Messenger project stewards
-this licence and may publish new versions at the licence URL; the Software
-is licensed under this version only unless the copyright holders state
-otherwise.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
-SOFTWARE.
-
-
-A NOTE, PLAINLY (not part of the terms)
-
-Condition 2 makes this a different licence from MIT — do not describe
-software under it as "MIT-licensed". It has not been through OSI review,
-and it is not compatible with the GPL family in either direction: its
-conditions are "further restrictions" there, and the GPL's are here. The
-share-alike follows the work, not your tools: whether you extend the
-Software by hand or with Generative AI, a Derivative Work you give to
-others stays open under this licence, because this software's own lines were
-distilled from humanity's commons and no one downstream may fence off that
-inheritance. Nothing here restricts what you do in private — use it, change
-it, keep it to yourself; the obligation begins only when you Distribute.
-That trigger is deliberate: running the Software, or a Derivative Work, as
-a service for others is use, not Distribution, and owes nothing back — this
-licence polices passing the work on, not running it. And yes — this licence
-was itself written by a generative artificial intelligence, on the ideas,
-instruction, and editing of humans, which is why it opens with a 🤖.
+Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
+==================================
+
+1. Definitions
+--------------
+
+1.1. "Contributor"
+ means each individual or legal entity that creates, contributes to
+ the creation of, or owns Covered Software.
+
+1.2. "Contributor Version"
+ means the combination of the Contributions of others (if any) used
+ by a Contributor and that particular Contributor's Contribution.
+
+1.3. "Contribution"
+ means Covered Software of a particular Contributor.
+
+1.4. "Covered Software"
+ means Source Code Form to which the initial Contributor has attached
+ the notice in Exhibit A, the Executable Form of such Source Code
+ Form, and Modifications of such Source Code Form, in each case
+ including portions thereof.
+
+1.5. "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses"
+ means
+
+ (a) that the initial Contributor has attached the notice described
+ in Exhibit B to the Covered Software; or
+
+ (b) that the Covered Software was made available under the terms of
+ version 1.1 or earlier of the License, but not also under the
+ terms of a Secondary License.
+
+1.6. "Executable Form"
+ means any form of the work other than Source Code Form.
+
+1.7. "Larger Work"
+ means a work that combines Covered Software with other material, in
+ a separate file or files, that is not Covered Software.
+
+1.8. "License"
+ means this document.
+
+1.9. "Licensable"
+ means having the right to grant, to the maximum extent possible,
+ whether at the time of the initial grant or subsequently, any and
+ all of the rights conveyed by this License.
+
+1.10. "Modifications"
+ means any of the following:
+
+ (a) any file in Source Code Form that results from an addition to,
+ deletion from, or modification of the contents of Covered
+ Software; or
+
+ (b) any new file in Source Code Form that contains any Covered
+ Software.
+
+1.11. "Patent Claims" of a Contributor
+ means any patent claim(s), including without limitation, method,
+ process, and apparatus claims, in any patent Licensable by such
+ Contributor that would be infringed, but for the grant of the
+ License, by the making, using, selling, offering for sale, having
+ made, import, or transfer of either its Contributions or its
+ Contributor Version.
+
+1.12. "Secondary License"
+ means either the GNU General Public License, Version 2.0, the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1, the GNU Affero General
+ Public License, Version 3.0, or any later versions of those
+ licenses.
+
+1.13. "Source Code Form"
+ means the form of the work preferred for making modifications.
+
+1.14. "You" (or "Your")
+ means an individual or a legal entity exercising rights under this
+ License. For legal entities, "You" includes any entity that
+ controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with You. For
+ purposes of this definition, "control" means (a) the power, direct
+ or indirect, to cause the direction or management of such entity,
+ whether by contract or otherwise, or (b) ownership of more than
+ fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding shares or beneficial
+ ownership of such entity.
+
+2. License Grants and Conditions
+--------------------------------
+
+2.1. Grants
+
+Each Contributor hereby grants You a world-wide, royalty-free,
+non-exclusive license:
+
+(a) under intellectual property rights (other than patent or trademark)
+ Licensable by such Contributor to use, reproduce, make available,
+ modify, display, perform, distribute, and otherwise exploit its
+ Contributions, either on an unmodified basis, with Modifications, or
+ as part of a Larger Work; and
+
+(b) under Patent Claims of such Contributor to make, use, sell, offer
+ for sale, have made, import, and otherwise transfer either its
+ Contributions or its Contributor Version.
+
+2.2. Effective Date
+
+The licenses granted in Section 2.1 with respect to any Contribution
+become effective for each Contribution on the date the Contributor first
+distributes such Contribution.
+
+2.3. Limitations on Grant Scope
+
+The licenses granted in this Section 2 are the only rights granted under
+this License. No additional rights or licenses will be implied from the
+distribution or licensing of Covered Software under this License.
+Notwithstanding Section 2.1(b) above, no patent license is granted by a
+Contributor:
+
+(a) for any code that a Contributor has removed from Covered Software;
+ or
+
+(b) for infringements caused by: (i) Your and any other third party's
+ modifications of Covered Software, or (ii) the combination of its
+ Contributions with other software (except as part of its Contributor
+ Version); or
+
+(c) under Patent Claims infringed by Covered Software in the absence of
+ its Contributions.
+
+This License does not grant any rights in the trademarks, service marks,
+or logos of any Contributor (except as may be necessary to comply with
+the notice requirements in Section 3.4).
+
+2.4. Subsequent Licenses
+
+No Contributor makes additional grants as a result of Your choice to
+distribute the Covered Software under a subsequent version of this
+License (see Section 10.2) or under the terms of a Secondary License (if
+permitted under the terms of Section 3.3).
+
+2.5. Representation
+
+Each Contributor represents that the Contributor believes its
+Contributions are its original creation(s) or it has sufficient rights
+to grant the rights to its Contributions conveyed by this License.
+
+2.6. Fair Use
+
+This License is not intended to limit any rights You have under
+applicable copyright doctrines of fair use, fair dealing, or other
+equivalents.
+
+2.7. Conditions
+
+Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4 are conditions of the licenses granted
+in Section 2.1.
+
+3. Responsibilities
+-------------------
+
+3.1. Distribution of Source Form
+
+All distribution of Covered Software in Source Code Form, including any
+Modifications that You create or to which You contribute, must be under
+the terms of this License. You must inform recipients that the Source
+Code Form of the Covered Software is governed by the terms of this
+License, and how they can obtain a copy of this License. You may not
+attempt to alter or restrict the recipients' rights in the Source Code
+Form.
+
+3.2. Distribution of Executable Form
+
+If You distribute Covered Software in Executable Form then:
+
+(a) such Covered Software must also be made available in Source Code
+ Form, as described in Section 3.1, and You must inform recipients of
+ the Executable Form how they can obtain a copy of such Source Code
+ Form by reasonable means in a timely manner, at a charge no more
+ than the cost of distribution to the recipient; and
+
+(b) You may distribute such Executable Form under the terms of this
+ License, or sublicense it under different terms, provided that the
+ license for the Executable Form does not attempt to limit or alter
+ the recipients' rights in the Source Code Form under this License.
+
+3.3. Distribution of a Larger Work
+
+You may create and distribute a Larger Work under terms of Your choice,
+provided that You also comply with the requirements of this License for
+the Covered Software. If the Larger Work is a combination of Covered
+Software with a work governed by one or more Secondary Licenses, and the
+Covered Software is not Incompatible With Secondary Licenses, this
+License permits You to additionally distribute such Covered Software
+under the terms of such Secondary License(s), so that the recipient of
+the Larger Work may, at their option, further distribute the Covered
+Software under the terms of either this License or such Secondary
+License(s).
+
+3.4. Notices
+
+You may not remove or alter the substance of any license notices
+(including copyright notices, patent notices, disclaimers of warranty,
+or limitations of liability) contained within the Source Code Form of
+the Covered Software, except that You may alter any license notices to
+the extent required to remedy known factual inaccuracies.
+
+3.5. Application of Additional Terms
+
+You may choose to offer, and to charge a fee for, warranty, support,
+indemnity or liability obligations to one or more recipients of Covered
+Software. However, You may do so only on Your own behalf, and not on
+behalf of any Contributor. You must make it absolutely clear that any
+such warranty, support, indemnity, or liability obligation is offered by
+You alone, and You hereby agree to indemnify every Contributor for any
+liability incurred by such Contributor as a result of warranty, support,
+indemnity or liability terms You offer. You may include additional
+disclaimers of warranty and limitations of liability specific to any
+jurisdiction.
+
+4. Inability to Comply Due to Statute or Regulation
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+If it is impossible for You to comply with any of the terms of this
+License with respect to some or all of the Covered Software due to
+statute, judicial order, or regulation then You must: (a) comply with
+the terms of this License to the maximum extent possible; and (b)
+describe the limitations and the code they affect. Such description must
+be placed in a text file included with all distributions of the Covered
+Software under this License. Except to the extent prohibited by statute
+or regulation, such description must be sufficiently detailed for a
+recipient of ordinary skill to be able to understand it.
+
+5. Termination
+--------------
+
+5.1. The rights granted under this License will terminate automatically
+if You fail to comply with any of its terms. However, if You become
+compliant, then the rights granted under this License from a particular
+Contributor are reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and until such
+Contributor explicitly and finally terminates Your grants, and (b) on an
+ongoing basis, if such Contributor fails to notify You of the
+non-compliance by some reasonable means prior to 60 days after You have
+come back into compliance. Moreover, Your grants from a particular
+Contributor are reinstated on an ongoing basis if such Contributor
+notifies You of the non-compliance by some reasonable means, this is the
+first time You have received notice of non-compliance with this License
+from such Contributor, and You become compliant prior to 30 days after
+Your receipt of the notice.
+
+5.2. If You initiate litigation against any entity by asserting a patent
+infringement claim (excluding declaratory judgment actions,
+counter-claims, and cross-claims) alleging that a Contributor Version
+directly or indirectly infringes any patent, then the rights granted to
+You by any and all Contributors for the Covered Software under Section
+2.1 of this License shall terminate.
+
+5.3. In the event of termination under Sections 5.1 or 5.2 above, all
+end user license agreements (excluding distributors and resellers) which
+have been validly granted by You or Your distributors under this License
+prior to termination shall survive termination.
+
+************************************************************************
+* *
+* 6. Disclaimer of Warranty *
+* ------------------------- *
+* *
+* Covered Software is provided under this License on an "as is" *
+* basis, without warranty of any kind, either expressed, implied, or *
+* statutory, including, without limitation, warranties that the *
+* Covered Software is free of defects, merchantable, fit for a *
+* particular purpose or non-infringing. The entire risk as to the *
+* quality and performance of the Covered Software is with You. *
+* Should any Covered Software prove defective in any respect, You *
+* (not any Contributor) assume the cost of any necessary servicing, *
+* repair, or correction. This disclaimer of warranty constitutes an *
+* essential part of this License. No use of any Covered Software is *
+* authorized under this License except under this disclaimer. *
+* *
+************************************************************************
+
+************************************************************************
+* *
+* 7. Limitation of Liability *
+* -------------------------- *
+* *
+* Under no circumstances and under no legal theory, whether tort *
+* (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, shall any *
+* Contributor, or anyone who distributes Covered Software as *
+* permitted above, be liable to You for any direct, indirect, *
+* special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character *
+* including, without limitation, damages for lost profits, loss of *
+* goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any *
+* and all other commercial damages or losses, even if such party *
+* shall have been informed of the possibility of such damages. This *
+* limitation of liability shall not apply to liability for death or *
+* personal injury resulting from such party's negligence to the *
+* extent applicable law prohibits such limitation. Some *
+* jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of *
+* incidental or consequential damages, so this exclusion and *
+* limitation may not apply to You. *
+* *
+************************************************************************
+
+8. Litigation
+-------------
+
+Any litigation relating to this License may be brought only in the
+courts of a jurisdiction where the defendant maintains its principal
+place of business and such litigation shall be governed by laws of that
+jurisdiction, without reference to its conflict-of-law provisions.
+Nothing in this Section shall prevent a party's ability to bring
+cross-claims or counter-claims.
+
+9. Miscellaneous
+----------------
+
+This License represents the complete agreement concerning the subject
+matter hereof. If any provision of this License is held to be
+unenforceable, such provision shall be reformed only to the extent
+necessary to make it enforceable. Any law or regulation which provides
+that the language of a contract shall be construed against the drafter
+shall not be used to construe this License against a Contributor.
+
+10. Versions of the License
+---------------------------
+
+10.1. New Versions
+
+Mozilla Foundation is the license steward. Except as provided in Section
+10.3, no one other than the license steward has the right to modify or
+publish new versions of this License. Each version will be given a
+distinguishing version number.
+
+10.2. Effect of New Versions
+
+You may distribute the Covered Software under the terms of the version
+of the License under which You originally received the Covered Software,
+or under the terms of any subsequent version published by the license
+steward.
+
+10.3. Modified Versions
+
+If you create software not governed by this License, and you want to
+create a new license for such software, you may create and use a
+modified version of this License if you rename the license and remove
+any references to the name of the license steward (except to note that
+such modified license differs from this License).
+
+10.4. Distributing Source Code Form that is Incompatible With Secondary
+Licenses
+
+If You choose to distribute Source Code Form that is Incompatible With
+Secondary Licenses under the terms of this version of the License, the
+notice described in Exhibit B of this License must be attached.
+
+Exhibit A - Source Code Form License Notice
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+If it is not possible or desirable to put the notice in a particular
+file, then You may include the notice in a location (such as a LICENSE
+file in a relevant directory) where a recipient would be likely to look
+for such a notice.
+
+You may add additional accurate notices of copyright ownership.
+
+Exhibit B - "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses" Notice
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+ This Source Code Form is "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses", as
+ defined by the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0.
+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 65c2825..a9522bd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -366,12 +366,17 @@ docs/*.md design notes (router, threads/DMs, push relay, mini-apps,
## Licence
-[The GAIEST Licence](LICENSE) — the **Generative Artificial Intelligence
-Evolving Software Technology Licence**: the MIT Licence with two
-additions, in the spirit of [the Eleven Factors](https://11factor.org).
-Generative AI is
-trained on the combined knowledge of all of humanity, so what it derives
-must be returned to humanity: any derivative you distribute stays open,
-bound by this same licence — and AI-written material keeps its 🤖 marker
-(spec: [docs/ai-markers.md](docs/ai-markers.md)). Canonical text and
-version history: https://11factor.org/gaiest-licence.
+[The Mozilla Public License, Version 2.0](LICENSE) — an OSI-approved,
+file-level ("weak") copyleft licence: modifications to this code stay open
+under the same terms, while a separate work that merely depends on it isn't
+dragged open with it.
+
+This is an interim choice, not a final one. In the spirit of
+[the Eleven Factors](https://11factor.org), the project's longer-term goal
+is a purpose-drafted licence — provisionally named GAIEST, the *Generative
+Artificial Intelligence Evolving Software Technology Licence* — that also
+closes the copyleft gap for hosted/SaaS use and carries a real disclosure
+requirement for AI-written material, once that draft has been through
+proper legal review and an OSI submission. Until then, AI-authorship
+marking is a **project convention**, not a licence condition — see
+[docs/ai-markers.md](docs/ai-markers.md).
diff --git a/docs/ai-markers.md b/docs/ai-markers.md
index ba728f1..a3d5514 100644
--- a/docs/ai-markers.md
+++ b/docs/ai-markers.md
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
# 🤖 AI-authorship markers — specification, version 1.0
-This is the Marker Specification referenced by Condition 3 of the GAIEST
-Licence (`LICENSE`): the convention for marking material written by
-generative AI. It is versioned; the licence names the version that binds
-it. The canonical copy travels with the Software as this file and is also
-published at https://11factor.org/gaiest-licence. (A friendlier working-notes
-form of the same convention lives in `CLAUDE.md § Who wrote this` — this
-file is the one the licence points at.)
+The convention for marking material written by generative AI in this
+codebase. **This is a project policy, not a licence condition** — the
+project currently ships under the plain [MPL-2.0](../LICENSE), which has no
+AI-disclosure term. A purpose-drafted successor licence (provisionally
+named GAIEST) that would make this a binding condition is still in
+drafting/legal review; until it clears that process and the project adopts
+it, this file states the convention this project holds itself to
+regardless. It is versioned in anticipation of that licence eventually
+naming a version. (A friendlier working-notes form of the same convention
+lives in `CLAUDE.md § Who wrote this` — this file is the fuller spec that
+doc points at.)
## The marker
@@ -36,19 +40,18 @@ A person emoji (👨 / 👤 / 🧑 …) marks material written or vetted by a
person. In HTML or Markdown the person marker may be hidden in a comment
(`<!-- 👨 -->`) so it doesn't render; the 🤖 marker must never be hidden.
-## Preserving and removing markers (what Condition 3 binds)
+## Preserving and removing markers
-- Copies and Derivative Works in source form **preserve** the markers they
+- Copies and derivative work in source form **preserve** the markers they
carry on material the markers still accurately describe.
- A marker **may be removed** where a human has substantially rewritten the
material it marks — the marker described the old text, not the new.
-- New AI-written material in a Derivative Work **should** be marked the same
- way; what Condition 3 *requires* is narrower: AI-written material must not
- be affirmatively presented as human-written.
+- New AI-written material in a derivative work **should** be marked the same
+ way; the narrower, non-negotiable part of the convention is: AI-written
+ material must not be affirmatively presented as human-written.
- **Compiled or minified artifacts** need not carry markers.
## Versioning
-Changes to this specification bump its version number; the GAIEST Licence
-binds the version it names, and the version history is published alongside
-the licence's at https://11factor.org/gaiest-licence.
+Changes to this specification bump its version number, in anticipation of
+a future GAIEST licence naming the version it binds.