BigScience Open RAIL-M License

Also known as BigScience Open RAIL-M, BigScience Open RAIL-M License, BigScience OpenRAIL-M, BigScience-OpenRAIL-M, bigscience-openrail-m.

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Compatible license test: additional or different license terms and conditions are allowed only if they keep the use-based restrictions of paragraph 5 as an enforceable provision
Field of use restriction: lawful purposes only, excluding the uses listed in Attachment A
Reciprocity scope: the use-based restrictions, not the whole agreement

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Warranty disclaimer

9. Disclaimer of Warranty. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Model and the Complementary Material (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 redistributing the Model, Derivatives of the Model, and the Complementary Material and assume any risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this License.

Limitation of liability

10. 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 or out of the use or inability to use the Model and the Complementary Material (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer 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.

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11. Accepting Warranty or Additional Liability. While redistributing the Model, Derivatives of the Model and the Complementary Material 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. 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.

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1. Definitions (a) "License" means the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and Distribution as defined in this document. (b) “Data” means a collection of information and/or content 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. (c) “Output” means the results of operating a Model as embodied in informational content resulting therefrom. (d) “Model” means any accompanying machine-learning based assemblies (including checkpoints), consisting of learnt weights, parameters (including optimizer states), corresponding to the model architecture as embodied in the Complementary Material, that have been trained or tuned, in whole or in part on the Data, using the Complementary Material. (e) “Derivatives of the Model” means all modifications to the Model, works based on 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, to the other model, in order to cause the other model to perform similarly to the Model, including - but not limited to - distillation methods entailing the use of intermediate data representations or methods based on the generation of synthetic data by the Model for training the other model. (f) “Complementary Material” means the accompanying source code and scripts used to define, run, load, benchmark or evaluate the Model, and used to prepare data for training or evaluation, if any. This includes any accompanying documentation, tutorials, examples, etc, if any. (g) “Distribution” means any transmission, reproduction, publication or other sharing of the Model or Derivatives of the Model to a third party, including providing the Model as a hosted service made available by electronic or other remote means - e.g. API-based or web access. (h) “Licensor” means the copyright owner or entity authorized by the copyright owner that is granting the License, including the persons or entities that may have rights in the Model and/or distributing the Model. (i) "You" (or "Your") means an individual or Legal Entity exercising permissions granted by this License and/or making use of the Model for whichever purpose and in any field of use, including usage of the Model in an end-use application - e.g. chatbot, translator, image generator. (j) “Third Parties” means individuals or legal entities that are not under common control with Licensor or You. (k) "Contribution" means any work of authorship, including the original version of the Model and any modifications or additions to that Model or Derivatives of the Model thereof, that is intentionally submitted to Licensor for inclusion in the Model by the copyright owner or by an individual or Legal 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." (l) "Contributor" means Licensor and any individual or Legal Entity on behalf of whom a Contribution has been received by Licensor and subsequently incorporated within the Model.

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Target asset types: Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://www.licenses.ai/ai-licenses
Legal code: https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/bigscience-open-rail-m.LICENSE
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: BigScience
SPDX identifier: BigScience-OpenRAIL-M (provisional, the record declares none)
DALICC identifier: BigScience-OpenRAIL-M

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  "license-title": "BigScience Open RAIL-M License",
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Review

Written from the license text by: Giray Havur
Written on: 2026-09-22
Second review: not yet done
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 13 recorded, 7 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The general responsible-use licence of this family, adapted from the licence written for one model so that it can be applied to any machine-learning model. It grants the copyright and patent rights of a permissive licence and takes back a list of uses in an attachment, which every downstream agreement must carry as an enforceable provision. The record follows the compatibility shape: relicensing is permitted and carries dalicc:compliantLicense, and dalicc:reciprocityScope says how far that reaches.

13 findings

info Rubric 1 dct:title applied

File name, record identifier and IRI local name agree. The licence has no SPDX identifier, so no spdx:licenseId triple is written. dct:title is the name the document gives itself; the short forms and the model-hub tag are in dct:alternative.
major Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

dcmitype:Dataset and dcmitype:Software. The licensed material is the model itself, "any accompanying machine-learning based assemblies (including checkpoints), consisting of learnt weights, parameters (including optimizer states)", which is data, together with the Complementary Material, "the accompanying source code and scripts used to define, run, load, benchmark or evaluate the Model", which is software.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

The copyright grant reads "each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Complementary Material, the Model, and Derivatives of the Model." That gives odrl:reproduce, odrl:display, odrl:present, odrl:distribute, dalicc:sublicense, cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, and odrl:modify and odrl:derive for the changes the licence calls Derivatives of the Model. dalicc:patentGrant comes from the separate patent licence. cc:CommercialUse is permitted because the licence names no limit of purpose: the licensee is defined as a person "making use of the Model for whichever purpose and in any field of use", and the only limits are the restricted uses of the attachment. dalicc:useForModelTraining is permitted because paragraph 5 says in terms that "Use may include creating any content with, finetuning, updating, running, training, evaluating and/or reparametrizing the Model", and because a model trained from this one by distillation or on synthetic data is a Derivative of the Model, which the grant licenses. dalicc:networkUseTrigger carries the hosting limb of Distribution, "You may host for Third Party remote access purposes (e.g. software-as-a-service), reproduce and distribute copies of the Model or Derivatives of the Model thereof in any medium", and it carries the same notice duties, because the licence treats hosting as a form of it. dalicc:ChangeLicense is permitted and carries dalicc:compliantLicense; see rubric 10.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

Three prohibitions. dalicc:promote from the trademark clause, "Nothing in this License 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." dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination from the patent clause, under which patent litigation over the model ends the patent licence. dalicc:exemptedMaterial from the definition that carves the training data out of the grant: "The Data is not licensed under this License."
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

Four duties on each of odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive, and three of them again on dalicc:networkUseTrigger. cc:Notice comes from "You must give any Third Party recipients of the Model or Derivatives of the Model a copy of this License"; cc:Attribution from "You must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices"; dalicc:modificationNotice from "You must cause any modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed the files"; and dalicc:addStatement from the duty to "give notice to subsequent users You Distribute to, that the Model or Derivatives of the Model are subject to paragraph 5". The modification notice does not hang on the hosting trigger, because hosting ships no files.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

The disclaimer clause goes to dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer, the limitation clause to dalicc:LiabilityLimitation and the clause that lets a redistributor offer and charge for a warranty to dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance, each whole and verbatim. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the definitions, the sentence that makes the model subject to the conditions of section III, the copyright grant, the patent grant, the distribution conditions, the use-based restrictions clause, the output clause, the runtime clause, the trademark clause, the severability clause and the whole of the attachment. Curly quotation marks in the source are kept; no long dash appears in the text.
minor Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, both from the grant, which is "perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable". The licence names no governing law and no court, so dalicc:governingLaw is left out. It has no general termination clause either, so dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is left out: the only ending the text provides is the patent clause, which is modelled as a prohibition.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The condition that carries the restrictions downstream has no term: "Use-based restrictions as referenced in paragraph 5 MUST be included as an enforceable provision by You in any type of legal agreement (e.g. a license) governing the use and/or distribution of the Model or Derivatives of the Model, and You shall give notice to subsequent users You Distribute to, that the Model or Derivatives of the Model are subject to paragraph 5." dalicc:addStatement covers the notice half of it, the duty to tell subsequent users that the model is subject to the restrictions, but not the half that obliges the licensee to write the restrictions into its own agreement as an enforceable provision. Quoted; the proposed term is dalicc:passThroughUseRestrictions, a duty action.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction none

The attachment lists thirteen uses the licensee agrees not to make of the model. dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction takes a short literal naming the field, not a list, so the literal names the field and the whole attachment is quoted verbatim in dalicc:additionalClauses. The proposed term is dalicc:prohibitedUsePolicy, an annotation carrying the list or the policy a licence applies.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The output clause has no term: "Except as set forth herein, Licensor claims no rights in the Output You generate using the Model. You are accountable for the Output you generate and its subsequent uses. No use of the output can contravene any provision as stated in the License." It is neither a permission nor a duty but a statement about what the licensor does not claim, and the composer has nowhere to put it. Quoted; the proposed term is dalicc:outputRightsStatement, an annotation.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The runtime clause reserves a power rather than granting or withholding a right: "To the maximum extent permitted by law, Licensor reserves the right to restrict (remotely or otherwise) usage of the Model in violation of this License, update the Model through electronic means, or modify the Output of the Model based on updates. You shall undertake reasonable efforts to use the latest version of the Model." Quoted; the proposed term is dalicc:runtimeRestrictionReserved, an annotation for a licence whose licensor may switch off a non-compliant use.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer against dg_default returned an empty conflict list. The licence-wide position holds no share-alike duty, so the dalicc:ChangeLicense permission raises no conflict; it carries dalicc:compliantLicense all the same, because the replacement terms must keep the restrictions.
info Rubric 10 record none

Family: the template of the four texts in this library that share the section layout of the responsible-use family. Its sibling for one named model differs only in the preamble, in the definition of the training data and in two extra items of the attachment; the two image-model texts differ in the preamble, in the copyright line and, in the later one, in a shortened runtime clause. The record is modelled identically to all three, statement for statement.

Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.

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.

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 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 The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may host for Third Party remote access purposes (e.g. software-as-a-service), reproduce and distribute copies of the Model or Derivatives of the Model thereof in any medium, with or without modifications, provided that You meet the following conditions:" Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "You must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Model," Its duty cc:Notice quotes "You must give any Third Party recipients of the Model or Derivatives of the Model a copy of this License;" Its duty dalicc:addStatement quotes "Use-based restrictions as referenced in paragraph 5 MUST be included as an enforceable provision by You in any type of legal agreement (e.g. a license) governing the use and/or distribution of the Model or Derivatives of the Model, and You shall give notice to subsequent users You Distribute to, that the Model or Derivatives of the Model are subject to paragraph 5."
- changed permission dalicc:useForModelTraining
  
  was permission dalicc:useForModelTraining
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Use may include creating any content with, finetuning, updating, running, training, evaluating and/or reparametrizing the Model."
- 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 "You must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Model," Its duty cc:Notice quotes "You must give any Third Party recipients of the Model or Derivatives of the Model a copy of this License;" Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "You must cause any modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed the files; d." Its duty dalicc:addStatement quotes "Use-based restrictions as referenced in paragraph 5 MUST be included as an enforceable provision by You in any type of legal agreement (e.g. a license) governing the use and/or distribution of the Model or Derivatives of the Model, and You shall give notice to subsequent users You Distribute to, that the Model or Derivatives of the Model are subject to paragraph 5."
- 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 "You must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Model," Its duty cc:Notice quotes "You must give any Third Party recipients of the Model or Derivatives of the Model a copy of this License;" Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "You must cause any modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed the files; d." Its duty dalicc:addStatement quotes "Use-based restrictions as referenced in paragraph 5 MUST be included as an enforceable provision by You in any type of legal agreement (e.g. a license) governing the use and/or distribution of the Model or Derivatives of the Model, and You shall give notice to subsequent users You Distribute to, that the Model or Derivatives of the Model are subject to paragraph 5."
- 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 "You must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Model," Its duty cc:Notice quotes "You must give any Third Party recipients of the Model or Derivatives of the Model a copy of this License;" Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "You must cause any modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed the files; d." Its duty dalicc:addStatement quotes "Use-based restrictions as referenced in paragraph 5 MUST be included as an enforceable provision by You in any type of legal agreement (e.g. a license) governing the use and/or distribution of the Model or Derivatives of the Model, and You shall give notice to subsequent users You Distribute to, that the Model or Derivatives of the Model are subject to paragraph 5."
- 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, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Complementary Material, the Model, and Derivatives 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."
- 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 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.
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