licenses

SAICR Fair Model Use Licenses 2.0

Licenses used for models released by SAICR. Every SAICR model states in its model card which of these licenses applies to it.

Overview

NC = Non-Commercial, NF = No Fine-Tuning.

What all three have in common

• Research, academic use, personal use, inference, and study are always allowed.
• Quantization (GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2, MLX, FP16/INT8/INT4, ...) is always allowed.
• Outputs generated by the model can be used for any lawful purpose, including commercial purposes.
• Redistribution must keep the exact same license, with a full copy included.
• Hosted services (APIs, demos, chat interfaces) must name the model and its license. SAICR may request that a hosted service be taken down.

Short summaries

2.0 NC NF — Non-Commercial, No Fine-Tuning

The most restrictive license. You may run and study the model, but not use it commercially without permission. No fine-tuning (including LoRA and adapters), pruning, merging, or distillation, and outputs may not be used to train other models. Free public APIs are allowed.

2.0 NC — Non-Commercial

Fine-tuning, LoRA, pruning, merging, and distillation are allowed for non-commercial purposes. Every derivative, including models trained on outputs, must be released under this same license, name the original model, and must not be presented as an official SAICR model. Free public APIs are allowed.

2.0 NF — No Fine-Tuning

Commercial use of the unmodified model (or a quantized version) is allowed, including in paid products and paid APIs. No fine-tuning, pruning, merging, or distillation without written permission, and outputs may not be used to train other models.

Also include a full copy of the license file in the model repo itself, since redistribution requires one.

Permissions and contact

Requests for commercial use (NC licenses) or for fine-tuning and other modifications (NF licenses) can be sent to [email protected].

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This README is a summary for convenience only. The license files are the binding terms; if anything here differs from a license file, the license file applies.