Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement

Also known as AMLR, Apple Machine Learning Research Model License, Apple-ML-Research-Model-License, apple-amlr.

Commercial use: not allowed
Share alike: not required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Apple-ML-Research-Model-License

Permissions

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Duties
- Modification notice from the text
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- Add statement from the text
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
Modified works from the text
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- Modification notice from the text
Reproduce from the text
Use for model training from the text

Prohibitions

Change license from the text
Commercial use from the text
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License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

What applies by default

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No default rule of that graph reaches this license: it speaks about every act the rules are about.

Further terms

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Field of use restriction: Research Purposes
Governing law: the laws of the State of California
Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

This Apple Machine Learning Research Model and any outputs generated by the Apple Machine Learning Research Model are provided on an “AS IS” basis. APPLE MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, REGARDING THE APPLE MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH MODEL OR OUTPUTS GENERATED BY THE APPLE MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH MODEL. You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing the Apple Machine Learning Research Model and any outputs of the Apple Machine Learning Research Model and assume any risks associated with Your use of the Apple Machine Learning Research Model and any output and results.

Limitation of liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL APPLE BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE, REPRODUCTION, MODIFICATION AND/OR DISTRIBUTION OF THE APPLE MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH MODEL AND ANY OUTPUTS OF THE APPLE MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH MODEL, HOWEVER CAUSED AND WHETHER UNDER THEORY OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF APPLE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Additional clauses

Disclaimer: IMPORTANT: This Apple Machine Learning Research Model is specifically developed and released by Apple Inc. ("Apple") for the sole purpose of scientific research of artificial intelligence and machine-learning technology. “Apple Machine Learning Research Model” means the model, including but not limited to algorithms, formulas, trained model weights, parameters, configurations, checkpoints, and any related materials (including documentation).

Info

Target asset types: Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://huggingface.co/apple/DepthPro/blob/main/LICENSE
Legal code: https://huggingface.co/apple/DepthPro/raw/main/LICENSE
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: Apple Inc.
SPDX identifier: AMLR (provisional, the record declares none)
DALICC identifier: Apple-ML-Research-Model-License

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

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JSON sidecar

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  "license-title": "Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement",
  "spdx-id": null,
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Apple-ML-Research-Model-License> .

RDF, JSON-LD

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    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
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  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Apple-ML-Research-Model-License"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Apple-ML-Research-Model-License" rel="license">Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement</a>.</p>

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Review

Written from the license text by: Giray Havur
Written on: 2026-09-22
Second review: not yet done
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 12 recorded, 7 applied to the record, 0 proposed

A research-only licence for a released model and for the model derivatives made from it. You may use, copy, modify, distribute and create model derivatives, but only for research purposes, and every copy you pass on must carry a copy of the agreement and the prescribed attribution line. The record models the research limit as a cc:CommercialUse prohibition with the field named in dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction, because no vocabulary term carries a research-only field of use.

12 findings

info Rubric 1 dct:title applied

File name, record identifier and IRI local name agree. The licence has no SPDX identifier, so no spdx:licenseId triple is written. dct:title is the name the agreement gives itself in its own attribution line, "Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement"; the shorter form and the model-hub tag are in dct:alternative.
major Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

dcmitype:Dataset and dcmitype:Software. The agreement defines the licensed material as "the model, including but not limited to algorithms, formulas, trained model weights, parameters, configurations, checkpoints, and any related materials (including documentation)": weights and parameters are data, algorithms and configurations are software, and the record carries both types.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

The grant reads "Apple hereby grants you a personal, non-exclusive, worldwide, non-transferable, royalty-free, revocable, and limited license, to use, copy, modify, distribute, and create Model Derivatives (defined below) of the Apple Machine Learning Research Model exclusively for Research Purposes." That gives odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:modify, odrl:derive, cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks. dalicc:useForModelTraining is permitted because the definition of Model Derivatives covers artifacts created "by any retraining, fine-tuning of the Apple Machine Learning Research Model", which the grant licenses. odrl:display and odrl:present are not written: the grant does not name them.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

Three prohibitions. cc:CommercialUse from "'Research Purposes' does not include any commercial exploitation, product development or use in any commercial product or service." dalicc:promote from "The name, trademarks, service marks or logos of Apple may not be used to endorse or promote Model Derivatives or the relationship between You and Apple." dalicc:ChangeLicense because redistribution must carry the agreement itself: "you must provide a copy of this Agreement to such third party".
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

Four duties on odrl:distribute, all from the distribution clause: cc:Notice for the copy of the agreement, cc:Attribution and dalicc:addStatement for the prescribed line "Apple Machine Learning Research Model is licensed under the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement.", and dalicc:modificationNotice for "all Model Derivatives must clearly be identified as such, including disclosure of modifications and changes made". The same modification notice hangs on odrl:modify and odrl:derive, because it is the act of making a derivative that triggers it.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

The single clause headed "Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability" is split at the sentence each property names: the "AS IS" sentence and the warranty sentences go to dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer, and the sentence beginning "IN NO EVENT SHALL APPLE BE LIABLE" goes to dalicc:LiabilityLimitation. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the opening disclaimer and definition, the acceptance paragraph, the licence scope, the distribution clause, the no-other-licence clause, the compliance clause, the termination clause and the governing-law clause. Curly quotation marks in the source are kept; no long dash appears in the text.
minor Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide because the grant is worldwide. dalicc:governingLaw names California, from "This Agreement will be governed by and construed under the laws of the State of California without regard to its choice of law principles." dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual: the term runs from acceptance until terminated, which is an indefinite period rather than a fixed one. dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is true, from "Apple may terminate this Agreement at any time if You are in breach of any term or condition of this Agreement." No cure period is given, so dalicc:curePeriod is left out.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction none

"Research Purposes" is defined as "non-commercial scientific research and academic development activities, such as experimentation, analysis, testing conducted by You with the sole intent to advance scientific knowledge and research". No duty action says "research use only"; dalicc:computationalUseOnly is a different idea and was not stretched to cover this. The field is named in dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction, the definition is quoted, and the proposed term is dalicc:researchUseOnly, a duty action beside dalicc:computationalUseOnly.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The grant is revocable: "a personal, non-exclusive, worldwide, non-transferable, royalty-free, revocable, and limited license". dalicc:validityType has no value for a grant the licensor may withdraw at will, and dalicc:terminatesOnBreach says only what happens on breach. The clause is quoted; the proposed term is dalicc:revocableGrant, a boolean beside dalicc:terminatesOnBreach.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The agreement disclaims warranties for "any outputs generated by the Apple Machine Learning Research Model" but says nothing about who owns them. Several records of this family have an express clause about output rights and there is no term for it. Quoted; the proposed term is dalicc:outputRightsStatement, an annotation naming what the licensor claims in the output.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer against dg_default returned an empty conflict list.
info Rubric 10 record none

Family: this is one of the three research-only records of the model family, beside the Intel and DeepFloyd texts. All three prohibit cc:CommercialUse and name the field in dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction. This one differs from the other two in granting modification and derivative works, which the Intel text withholds, and in having no export-control clause, which the DeepFloyd text has.

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History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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- changed permission odrl:derive with duties [dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "* Distribution of Apple Machine Learning Research Model and Model Derivatives: If you choose to redistribute Apple Machine Learning Research Model or its Model Derivatives, you must provide a copy of this Agreement to such third party, and ensure that the following attribution notice be provided: “Apple Machine Learning Research Model is licensed under the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement.” Additionally, all Model Derivatives must clearly be identified as such, including disclosure of modifications and changes made to the Apple Machine Learning Research Model."
- changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "* Distribution of Apple Machine Learning Research Model and Model Derivatives: If you choose to redistribute Apple Machine Learning Research Model or its Model Derivatives, you must provide a copy of this Agreement to such third party, and ensure that the following attribution notice be provided: “Apple Machine Learning Research Model is licensed under the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement.” Additionally, all Model Derivatives must clearly be identified as such, including disclosure of modifications and changes made to the Apple Machine Learning Research Model." Its duty dalicc:addStatement quotes "* Distribution of Apple Machine Learning Research Model and Model Derivatives: If you choose to redistribute Apple Machine Learning Research Model or its Model Derivatives, you must provide a copy of this Agreement to such third party, and ensure that the following attribution notice be provided: “Apple Machine Learning Research Model is licensed under the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement.” Additionally, all Model Derivatives must clearly be identified as such, including disclosure of modifications and changes made to the Apple Machine Learning Research Model." Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "* Distribution of Apple Machine Learning Research Model and Model Derivatives: If you choose to redistribute Apple Machine Learning Research Model or its Model Derivatives, you must provide a copy of this Agreement to such third party, and ensure that the following attribution notice be provided: “Apple Machine Learning Research Model is licensed under the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement.” Additionally, all Model Derivatives must clearly be identified as such, including disclosure of modifications and changes made to the Apple Machine Learning Research Model."
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "* Distribution of Apple Machine Learning Research Model and Model Derivatives: If you choose to redistribute Apple Machine Learning Research Model or its Model Derivatives, you must provide a copy of this Agreement to such third party, and ensure that the following attribution notice be provided: “Apple Machine Learning Research Model is licensed under the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement.” Additionally, all Model Derivatives must clearly be identified as such, including disclosure of modifications and changes made to the Apple Machine Learning Research Model."
- changed permission odrl:reproduce
  
  was permission odrl:reproduce
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "* License Scope: In consideration of your agreement to abide by the following terms, and subject to these terms, Apple hereby grants you a personal, non-exclusive, worldwide, non-transferable, royalty-free, revocable, and limited license, to use, copy, modify, distribute, and create Model Derivatives (defined below) of the Apple Machine Learning Research Model exclusively for Research Purposes."
- changed prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  was prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The name, trademarks, service marks or logos of Apple may not be used to endorse or promote Model Derivatives or the relationship between You and Apple."
- added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>
  
  Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Model licences).

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