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BigCode Open RAIL-M v1 License Agreement

Also known as BigCode Open RAIL-M, BigCode Open RAIL-M v1 License Agreement, BigCode OpenRAIL-M, BigCode-OpenRAIL-M, bigcode-openrail-m.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
not required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/BigCode-OpenRAIL-M

Permissions

  • Change license from the text Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

    Duties

    • Use a compliant license from the text Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
  • Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Network use trigger from the text Making the work available over a network, deploying it or providing a service with it.

    Duties

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Patent grant from the text Granting a license under the patent claims that a contributor holds and that the contribution necessarily infringes.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.
  • Sublicense from the text Granting a third party rights in the work under a license of the licensee's own, rather than passing on the original license.
  • Use for model training from the text Using the licensed material to train, validate or tune an automated system that learns from data.

Prohibitions

  • Exempted material from the text Not permitted: Exempted material. Using material that the license carves out of its grant, such as personal data, official insignia, third-party rights or material under a separate license.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

License-wide duties

  • Contribution grant back from the text Granting the licensor, or every other licensee, a license over one's own changes to the work, so that they can travel back into the original.

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Patent license ends if you sue
Yes. Not a ban on suing: a patent claim over the work ends the patent license, or the whole license, as the text provides.
Compatible license test
any license of your choice that does not contradict the restrictions in Attachment A and includes paragraph 4 and those restrictions, or use conditions and restrictions that accomplish the same purpose
Field of use restriction
lawful purposes only, excluding the uses listed in Attachment A
Reciprocity scope
the use-based restrictions, not the whole agreement

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

10. Disclaimer of Warranty. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Model (and each Contributor provides its Contributions) on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or sharing the Model and Modifications of the Model, and assume any risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this License Agreement.

Limitation of liability

11. Limitation of Liability. In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall any Contributor be liable to You for damages, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character arising as a result of this License Agreement or out of the Use or inability to Use the Model (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, model failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if such Contributor has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Accepting warranty or additional liability

12. Accepting Warranty or Additional Liability. While sharing the Model or Modifications of the Model thereof, You may choose to offer and charge a fee for, acceptance of support, warranty, indemnity, or other liability obligations and/or rights consistent with this License Agreement. However, in accepting such obligations, You may act only on Your own behalf and on Your sole responsibility, not on behalf of any other Contributor, and only if You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold each Contributor harmless for any liability incurred by, or claims asserted against, such Contributor by reason of your accepting any such warranty or additional liability.

Additional clauses

1.Definitions a. “Contribution” means any work of authorship, including the original version of the Model and any Modifications of the Model that is intentionally submitted to Licensor for inclusion in the Model by the copyright owner or by an individual or entity authorized to submit on behalf of the copyright owner. For the purposes of this definition, “submitted” means any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to the Licensor or its representatives, including but not limited to communication on electronic mailing lists, source code control systems, and issue tracking systems that are managed by, or on behalf of, the Licensor for the purpose of discussing and improving the Model, but excluding communication that is conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing by the copyright owner as “Not a Contribution.” b. “Contributor” means Licensor and any individual or entity on behalf of whom a Contribution has been received by Licensor and subsequently incorporated within the Model. c. “Data” means a collection of information extracted from the dataset used with the Model, including to train, pretrain, or otherwise evaluate the Model. The Data is not licensed under this License Agreement. d. “Explanatory Documentation” means model cards, data cards, or any other similar documentation or related information dedicated to inform the public about the characteristics of the model. Explanatory documentation is not licensed under this license. e. “Harm” includes but is not limited to physical, mental, psychological, financial and reputational damage, pain, or loss. f. “License Agreement” means this document. g. “Licensor” means the rights owners or entity authorized by the rights owners that are granting the terms and conditions of this License Agreement. h. “Model” means machine-learning based assemblies (including checkpoints), consisting of learnt weights and parameters (including optimizer states), corresponding to a model architecture as embodied in source code. Source code is not licensed under this License Agreement. i. “Modifications of the Model” means all changes to the Model or any other model which is created or initialized by transfer of patterns of the weights, parameters, activations or Output of the Model. j. “Output” means the results of operating the Model. k. “Share” means any transmission, reproduction, publication or other sharing of the Model or Modifications of the Model to a third party, including providing the Model as a hosted service made available by electronic or other remote means, including - but not limited to - API-based or web access. l. “Third Parties” means individuals or legal entities that are not under common control with Licensor or You. m. “Use” includes - but is not limited to - generating any Output, fine tuning, updating, running, training, evaluating and/or reparametrizing the Model. n. “You” (or “Your”) means an individual or Legal Entity exercising permissions granted by this License Agreement and/or making Use of the Model for whichever purpose and in any field of Use.

Info

Target asset types
Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://www.bigcode-project.org/docs/pages/bigcode-openrail/
Legal code
https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/bigcode-open-rail-m-v1.LICENSE
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
BigCode
SPDX identifier
BigCode-OpenRAIL-M (provisional, the record declares none)
Version
1
DALICC identifier
BigCode-OpenRAIL-M

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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    • changed duty dalicc:contributionGrantBack

      was duty dalicc:contributionGrantBack

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Unless You explicitly state otherwise, any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Model by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of this License, without any additional terms or conditions."

    • changed permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      was permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.

    • changed permission dalicc:networkUseTrigger with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement]

      was permission dalicc:networkUseTrigger with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Give any recipients a copy of this License Agreement;"

    • changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Give any recipients a copy of this License Agreement;" Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "Retain all Explanatory Documentation; and if sharing Modifications of the Model, add Explanatory Documentation of the same or better quality documenting the changes made to create the Modifications of the Model; and"

    • changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Give any recipients a copy of this License Agreement;" Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "Retain all Explanatory Documentation; and if sharing Modifications of the Model, add Explanatory Documentation of the same or better quality documenting the changes made to create the Modifications of the Model; and"

    • changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Give any recipients a copy of this License Agreement;" Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "Retain all Explanatory Documentation; and if sharing Modifications of the Model, add Explanatory Documentation of the same or better quality documenting the changes made to create the Modifications of the Model; and"

    • changed permission odrl:reproduce

      was permission odrl:reproduce

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement and where and as applicable, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, copyright license to reproduce, prepare, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense under the terms herein, and distribute the Model and Modifications of the Model."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:exemptedMaterial

      was prohibition dalicc:exemptedMaterial

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The Data is not licensed under this License Agreement."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:promote

      was prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Nothing in this License Agreement permits You to make Use of Licensors’ trademarks, trade names, logos or to otherwise suggest endorsement or misrepresent the relationship between the parties; and any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by the Licensors."

    • added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

      Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

  2. Version 1

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Model licences).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

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