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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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+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+
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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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Documentation
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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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Choosing a suitable license
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