RESPONSIBLE AI licenses

These are samples of RAIL licenses that could be adapted or modified or used-as-is with minimal changes. We recommend you do not modify the usage restrictions without consulting a legal expert so as to ensure they remain valid legal clauses.

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Responsible AI Pubs Licenses: These licenses are built on a model for behavioral-use that aims to reduce the risk of negative outcomes and misuse of AI. Specifically, licenses for models (AIPubs OpenRAIL-M), source code (AIPubs OpenRAIL-S) are available. Researchers can use multiple licenses if they are distributing both models and source code. These licenses are similar to licenses used by BigScience and over 6000+ related repositories for AI models and code. Community feedback is essential, and we are grateful to receive feedback. Please complete this form if you pan to use an AI Pubs License.

Responsible AI Source Code License: We recommend you include a reference to this license at each modular block of your source code. That is, in each file and preferably at each code function/method, class, data structure definition and especially in methods that involve any algorithmic processing. Under the new naming convention introduced in our blog post this is a sample of an Open RAIL-S License.

BigScience Open RAIL-M License: Under the new naming convention introduced in our blog post this is a sample of an Open RAIL-M License.