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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.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
not required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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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

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

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
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

Clauses

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.

Accepting warranty or additional liability

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.

Additional clauses

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.

Info

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
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
BigScience
SPDX identifier
BigScience-OpenRAIL-M (provisional, the record declares none)
DALICC identifier
BigScience-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 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.

  2. Version 1

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

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