From 58330df245896be587b9698a312ebac5c1e50c12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maximus Gorog Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:10:32 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Add NOTICE: AI tooling acknowledgement; proprietary rights stand on human-directed whole --- NOTICE | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 NOTICE diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b8cb991 --- /dev/null +++ b/NOTICE @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +NOTICE — Development methodology and authorship + +This Software was developed under direct human creative direction with +the assistance of AI tooling (Claude, by Anthropic). AI assistance +was used analogously to an IDE, compiler, or code-completion engine: +a tool operating under continuous human supervision and review. + +The Software's design, architecture, system specifications, naming, +module organisation, interface contracts, integration strategy, and +verification plan are the work of the copyright holder. AI-generated +fragments were directed, selected, audited, refined, and integrated +by the human author, who exercised final judgment on every substantive +design and correctness decision. + +Per Anthropic's published Terms of Service, output ownership is +assigned to the user; the AI provider claims no rights in the +resulting code. Per United States Copyright Office guidance (August +2023, "Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material +Generated by Artificial Intelligence"), purely machine-generated +output is not eligible for copyright, while the selection, +arrangement, and creative human direction supplied by a human author +are. Those human-authored contributions — architectural decisions, +problem framing, design rationale, integration, and verification — +are the load-bearing creative contributions to this Software, and the +accompanying LICENSE asserts proprietary rights on the resulting +human-directed creative whole. + +"Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) " +footers in commit messages document the development methodology in +the customary tooling-honesty convention. They are not a claim of +legal authorship by the AI and effect no transfer of rights to any +third party. + +Trade-secret protection, contract law, and access controls applying +to this repository remain in force independent of the copyright +analysis above. + +For licensing inquiries, contact: mgorog@gmail.com