ModelGo licenses provide flexible, free, and user-friendly licensing solutions to meet your specific needs in publishing deep learning models. The goal of ModelGo is to facilitate managed sharing of models while protecting Intellectual Property, striking a balance between openness and control, and preserving model developers' opportunities for commercialization.
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ModelGo licenses offer you five publishing options:
With multiple publishing options supported, ModelGo can offer you a unified solution for licensing models with different sharing purposes and policies.
There are nine variations of ModelGo licenses, categorized from the most to the least permissive. They are grouped into Permissive Licenses, Conditional Permissive Licenses, and Stringent Licenses. Please select the one that best suits your needs.
Permissive
These licenses are sublicensable and irrevocable, with almost no restrictions applied to the derivatives.
Conditional Permissive
These licenses include some copyleft-style terms. Recipients can freely use and make derivatives as long as they comply with the specified conditional license terms of the original work.
Stringent
These licenses are non-free and contain strict redistribution restrictions, such as for non-commercial purposes only and/or prohibiting the sharing of derivatives of the original work. All rights (including Intellectual Property Rights) in any Derivative Materials shall automatically vest in and be owned by the Licensor.
The NoDerivatives licensing options prohibit any kind of sharing of model outputs, derivative models, and their outputs. These licenses can be used as proprietary licenses.
Our licenses are reusable, meaning you can apply them without any modifications on terms. To declare the use of ModelGo licenses, you can include a license notice in your model. We recommend attaching the MG license text file in your project and presenting this notice information on your model card page or GitHub repository page.
An example of the license notice for MG-BY-NC-RAI-2.0 is:
Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
Licensed under the ModelGo Attribution-NonCommercial-ResponsibleAI License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
https://ids.nus.edu.sg/docs/modelgo/MG-BY-NC-RAI-2.0.txt
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, the Licensed Materials and
any Ouput and results thereof distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
Please replace the fields enclosed by brackets "[]" with your own identifying information and change "Attribution-NonCommercial-ResponsibleAI" and "MG-BY-NC-RAI" to the full name and short identifier of your chosen MG license. If you modify the terms and conditions of MG Licenses, please replace "Version *" with "Modified Version" and update the license link to your modified license file.
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