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* Update hardware licences * Add ML models licences
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docs/productive/licensing.rst

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licence for Open Access publications, see also `Why CC BY is the Best Choice
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for Open Access Publishing <https://deal-konsortium.de/en/why-ccby>`_.
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:abbr:`RADAR (Research Data Repository)`, a cross-disciplinary repository for
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archiving and publishing research data, recommends only one of the `CC
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licences
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<https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/radarfeatures/lizenzen-fuer-forschungsdaten#cc-licenses>`_.
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The `Open Knowledge Foundation <https://okfn.org/en/>`_ has also published a set
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of `Open Data Commons <https://opendatacommons.org>`_ licences for
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data/databases:
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Another possible licence for artistic works is the `Free Art License 1.3
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<https://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/>`_.
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Machine learning models
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It’s an open question whether :abbr:`AI (Artificial Intelligence)`/:abbr:`ML
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(Machine Learning)` model weights are copyrightable at all. US copyright law
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expressly excludes *‘any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation,
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concept, principle, or discovery, however described, explained, illustrated, or
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embodied in such work’* from copyrightable works, and the US Copyright Office
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has stated that this exclusion extends to *‘scientific or technical methods or
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discoveries’*, *‘mathematical principles’* and *‘formulas or algorithms’*.
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It’s not yet clear whether model weights can be considered works of human
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authorship or rather the results of automated processes. These questions have
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yet to be decided by the courts.
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While many :abbr:`ML (Machine Learning)` models use open software licences such
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as MIT or Apache 2.0, there are a number of ML model-specific licences that have
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been developed for a company or specific models:
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* `Microsoft Data Use Agreement for Open AI Model Development
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<https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE4Rjfq>`_
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* `OPT-175B
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<https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/blob/main/projects/OPT/MODEL_LICENSE.md>`_
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* `BigScience BLOOM RAIL v1.0
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<https://bigscience.huggingface.co/blog/the-bigscience-rail-license>`_
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* `BigScience OpenRAIL-M (Responsible AI License
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<https://www.licenses.ai/blog/2022/8/26/bigscience-open-rail-m-license>`_
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RAIL-D
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contains usage restrictions that only apply to the data.
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RAIL-A
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contains usage restrictions that only apply to the
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application/executability.
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RAIL-M
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contains usage restrictions that only apply to the model.
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RAIL-S
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contains usage restrictions that only apply to the source code.
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.. seealso::
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* `Licensing Machine Learning models
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<https://book.the-turing-way.org/reproducible-research/licensing/licensing-ml>`_ by The Turing Way Community
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Designs for `open source hardware <https://www.oshwa.org/definition/>`_ are
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covered by the CERN Open Hardware licences:
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In addition to the `GNU General Public License (GPL)
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<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html/>`_ and the `Creative Commons licences
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<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/>`_, the `Open Source Hardware Association
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(OSHWA) <https://www.oshwa.org/definition/>`_ also accepts the following
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specialised licences:
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`CERN-OHL-P-2.0 <https://ohwr.org/cern_ohl_p_v2.txt>`_
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permissive
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Permissive variant
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`CERN-OHL-W-2.0 <https://ohwr.org/cern_ohl_w_v2.txt>`_
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weakly reciprocal
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Weakly reciprocal variant
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`CERN-OHL-S-2.0 <https://ohwr.org/cern_ohl_s_v2.txt>`_
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strongly reciprocal
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Copyleft or strongly reciprocal variant
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`TAPR <https://tapr.org/the-tapr-open-hardware-license/>`_
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Copyleft licence
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`Solderpad Hardware License <https://solderpad.org>`_
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Permissive licence based on the `Apache 2.0 software licence
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<https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html>`_
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* `Licensing Open Source Hardware
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<https://larszimmermann.de/licensing-open-source-hardware-by-michael-weinberg/>`_
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by Michael Weinberg
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* `OSHW 101 <https://oshwa.org/oshw-101/>`_
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* `Certified Open Source Hardware Projects
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<https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html>`_
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* `OSHWA Certification Process - Hardware
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<https://certification.oshwa.org/process/hardware.html>`_
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* `Licensing Open Hardware <https://zenodo.org/records/7195720>`_
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by Santosh Ilhamparuth
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* `Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation <https://fossi-foundation.org>`_
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