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Which license should we pick?

Which license should we pick?“MIT, so anyone's agent can use it without a lawyer.”Taylor Kim, The AI Native

💡 WHY TAYLOR IS RIGHT

Code is increasingly found, adapted and integrated by agents working for developers at other companies. Permissive licenses remove friction from that loop: no copyleft obligations to track, no debate about whether generated glue code became a derivative work, no legal review before an agent can wire it into a prototype. If the goal is to become a building block that people and their tools reach for by default, the most permissive common license is the shortest path.

✅ RIGHT WHEN

The project wants maximum reuse as a building block, by humans and their tools.

🚩 TOO FAR WHEN

The project is the whole business, and the license invites anyone to resell it.

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