BigCode Open RAIL-M v1 License Agreement

Also known as BigCode Open RAIL-M, BigCode Open RAIL-M v1 License Agreement, BigCode OpenRAIL-M, BigCode-OpenRAIL-M, bigcode-openrail-m.

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

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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/BigCode-OpenRAIL-M

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Patent license ends if you sue: Yes. Not a ban on suing: a patent claim over the work ends the patent license, or the whole license, as the text provides.
Compatible license test: any license of your choice that does not contradict the restrictions in Attachment A and includes paragraph 4 and those restrictions, or use conditions and restrictions that accomplish the same purpose
Field of use restriction: lawful purposes only, excluding the uses listed in Attachment A
Reciprocity scope: the use-based restrictions, not the whole agreement

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Warranty disclaimer

10. Disclaimer of Warranty. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Model (and each Contributor provides its Contributions) on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or sharing the Model and Modifications of the Model, and assume any risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this License Agreement.

Limitation of liability

11. Limitation of Liability. In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall any Contributor be liable to You for damages, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character arising as a result of this License Agreement or out of the Use or inability to Use the Model (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, model failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if such Contributor has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Accepting warranty or additional liability

12. Accepting Warranty or Additional Liability. While sharing the Model or Modifications of the Model thereof, You may choose to offer and charge a fee for, acceptance of support, warranty, indemnity, or other liability obligations and/or rights consistent with this License Agreement. However, in accepting such obligations, You may act only on Your own behalf and on Your sole responsibility, not on behalf of any other Contributor, and only if You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold each Contributor harmless for any liability incurred by, or claims asserted against, such Contributor by reason of your accepting any such warranty or additional liability.

Additional clauses

1.Definitions a. “Contribution” means any work of authorship, including the original version of the Model and any Modifications of the Model that is intentionally submitted to Licensor for inclusion in the Model by the copyright owner or by an individual or entity authorized to submit on behalf of the copyright owner. For the purposes of this definition, “submitted” means any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to the Licensor or its representatives, including but not limited to communication on electronic mailing lists, source code control systems, and issue tracking systems that are managed by, or on behalf of, the Licensor for the purpose of discussing and improving the Model, but excluding communication that is conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing by the copyright owner as “Not a Contribution.” b. “Contributor” means Licensor and any individual or entity on behalf of whom a Contribution has been received by Licensor and subsequently incorporated within the Model. c. “Data” means a collection of information extracted from the dataset used with the Model, including to train, pretrain, or otherwise evaluate the Model. The Data is not licensed under this License Agreement. d. “Explanatory Documentation” means model cards, data cards, or any other similar documentation or related information dedicated to inform the public about the characteristics of the model. Explanatory documentation is not licensed under this license. e. “Harm” includes but is not limited to physical, mental, psychological, financial and reputational damage, pain, or loss. f. “License Agreement” means this document. g. “Licensor” means the rights owners or entity authorized by the rights owners that are granting the terms and conditions of this License Agreement. h. “Model” means machine-learning based assemblies (including checkpoints), consisting of learnt weights and parameters (including optimizer states), corresponding to a model architecture as embodied in source code. Source code is not licensed under this License Agreement. i. “Modifications of the Model” means all changes to the Model or any other model which is created or initialized by transfer of patterns of the weights, parameters, activations or Output of the Model. j. “Output” means the results of operating the Model. k. “Share” means any transmission, reproduction, publication or other sharing of the Model or Modifications of the Model to a third party, including providing the Model as a hosted service made available by electronic or other remote means, including - but not limited to - API-based or web access. l. “Third Parties” means individuals or legal entities that are not under common control with Licensor or You. m. “Use” includes - but is not limited to - generating any Output, fine tuning, updating, running, training, evaluating and/or reparametrizing the Model. n. “You” (or “Your”) means an individual or Legal Entity exercising permissions granted by this License Agreement and/or making Use of the Model for whichever purpose and in any field of Use.

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Target asset types: Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://www.bigcode-project.org/docs/pages/bigcode-openrail/
Legal code: https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/bigcode-open-rail-m-v1.LICENSE
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: BigCode
SPDX identifier: BigCode-OpenRAIL-M (provisional, the record declares none)
Version: 1
DALICC identifier: BigCode-OpenRAIL-M

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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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: 13 recorded, 7 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The responsible-use licence written for code-generation models. It is drafted differently from the rest of the family, with Share in place of Distribution and Modifications of the Model in place of Derivatives of the Model, and it states in terms which replacement licences it accepts. The record carries that test in dalicc:compatibleLicenseTest and adds a licence-wide dalicc:contributionGrantBack duty, which the other texts of the family do not have.

13 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 document gives itself; the short forms and the model-hub tag are in dct:alternative. The document numbers itself v1, which is in dalicc:licenseVersion.
major Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

dcmitype:Dataset and dcmitype:Software. The Model is defined as "machine-learning based assemblies (including checkpoints), consisting of learnt weights and parameters (including optimizer states), corresponding to a model architecture as embodied in source code": the weights are data and the assemblies are software. Source code, the training data and the explanatory documentation are expressly not licensed, which is why dalicc:exemptedMaterial is prohibited.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

The copyright grant reads "each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, copyright license to reproduce, prepare, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense under the terms herein, and distribute the Model and Modifications of the Model." That gives odrl:reproduce, odrl:display, odrl:present, odrl:distribute, dalicc:sublicense, cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, and odrl:modify and odrl:derive for the changes the licence calls Modifications of the Model. dalicc:patentGrant comes from the separate patent licence. cc:CommercialUse is permitted because the preamble says so: "Openness here is understood as enabling users of the Model on a royalty free basis to Use it, modify it, and even share commercial versions of it". dalicc:useForModelTraining is permitted because Use is defined to include "generating any Output, fine tuning, updating, running, training, evaluating and/or reparametrizing the Model". dalicc:networkUseTrigger carries the hosting limb of Share, which is defined as "any transmission, reproduction, publication or other sharing of the Model or Modifications of the Model to a third party, including providing the Model as a hosted service made available by electronic or other remote means", and it carries the same notice duties, because the licence treats hosting as a form of it. dalicc:ChangeLicense is permitted and carries dalicc:compliantLicense; see rubric 10.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

Three prohibitions. dalicc:promote from the trademark clause, "Nothing in this License Agreement permits You to make Use of Licensors' trademarks, trade names, logos or to otherwise suggest endorsement or misrepresent the relationship between the parties; and any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by the Licensors." dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination from the patent clause, under which patent litigation over the model ends the patent licence. dalicc:exemptedMaterial from the definition that carves the training data out of the grant: "The Data is not licensed under this License Agreement." The same clause carves out the source code, "Source code is not licensed under this License Agreement", and the explanatory documentation, "Explanatory documentation is not licensed under this license".
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

Four duties on each of odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive, three of them again on dalicc:networkUseTrigger, and one licence-wide duty. cc:Notice comes from 5.2(a), "Give any recipients a copy of this License Agreement"; cc:Attribution from 5.2(c), "Retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices"; dalicc:modificationNotice from 5.2(b), "if sharing Modifications of the Model, add Explanatory Documentation of the same or better quality documenting the changes made to create the Modifications of the Model"; and dalicc:addStatement from 5.1, the duty to share only under a licence that includes paragraph 4 and the restrictions. The licence-wide duty is dalicc:contributionGrantBack, from section 8: "any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Model by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of this License".
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

The disclaimer clause goes to dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer, the limitation clause to dalicc:LiabilityLimitation and the clause that lets a redistributor offer and charge for a warranty to dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance, each whole and verbatim. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the definitions, the sentence that makes the model subject to the conditions of section III, the copyright grant, the patent grant, the use conditions, the sharing clause, the output clause, the runtime clause, the contribution clause, the trademark clause, the severability clause and the whole of the attachment. Curly quotation marks in the source are kept; no long dash appears in the text.
minor Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, both from the grant, which is "perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free". The licence names no governing law and no court, so dalicc:governingLaw is left out. It has no general termination clause either, so dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is left out: the only ending the text provides is the patent clause, which is modelled as a prohibition. The grant is not stated to be irrevocable, unlike the grant of the other texts of this family, and 4 makes compliance with the attachment "a condition to the grants in this License Agreement", which is a condition rather than a termination clause.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The condition that carries the restrictions downstream has no term: "You may Share the Model or Modifications of the Model under any license of your choice that does not contradict the restrictions in Attachment A of this License Agreement and includes: a. Paragraph 4 and the restrictions in Attachment A of this License Agreement, or, b. Use conditions similar to Paragraph 4 that must accomplish the same purpose as the use conditions in Paragraph 4 and a similar set of restrictions to those in Attachment A that must accomplish the same purpose as the restrictions in Attachment A." dalicc:addStatement covers the notice half of it, the duty to tell subsequent users that the model is subject to the restrictions, but not the half that obliges the licensee to write the restrictions into its own agreement as an enforceable provision. Quoted; the proposed term is dalicc:passThroughUseRestrictions, a duty action.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction none

The attachment lists fourteen uses the licensee agrees not to make of the model. dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction takes a short literal naming the field, not a list, so the literal names the field and the whole attachment is quoted verbatim in dalicc:additionalClauses. The proposed term is dalicc:prohibitedUsePolicy, an annotation carrying the list or the policy a licence applies.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The output clause has no term: "Licensor claims no rights in the Output. You agree not to contravene any provision as stated in the License Agreement with your Use of the Output." It is neither a permission nor a duty but a statement about what the licensor does not claim, and the composer has nowhere to put it. Quoted; the proposed term is dalicc:outputRightsStatement, an annotation.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The runtime clause reserves a power rather than granting or withholding a right: "Licensor reserves the right to restrict (remotely or otherwise) usage of the Model in violation of this License Agreement." Quoted; the proposed term is dalicc:runtimeRestrictionReserved, an annotation for a licence whose licensor may switch off a non-compliant use.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer against dg_default returned an empty conflict list. The licence-wide position holds no share-alike duty, so the dalicc:ChangeLicense permission raises no conflict; it carries dalicc:compliantLicense all the same, because the replacement terms must keep the restrictions.
info Rubric 10 record none

Family: the drafting of this text departs from the other four of the family. It names the sharing act Share rather than Distribution, calls the changes Modifications of the Model rather than Derivatives of the Model, defines Harm and Explanatory Documentation, and, unlike them, states in terms which replacement licences it accepts, which is why this record alone carries dalicc:compatibleLicenseTest with the licence's own test. It is also the only one with an inbound contribution clause, and its grant is not stated to be irrevocable. The attachment has fourteen items against their thirteen.

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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

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- changed duty dalicc:contributionGrantBack
  
  was duty dalicc:contributionGrantBack
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Unless You explicitly state otherwise, any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Model by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of this License, without any additional terms or conditions."
- changed permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]
  
  was permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]
  
  Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.
- changed permission dalicc:networkUseTrigger with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement]
  
  was permission dalicc:networkUseTrigger with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Give any recipients a copy of this License Agreement;"
- changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Give any recipients a copy of this License Agreement;" Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "Retain all Explanatory Documentation; and if sharing Modifications of the Model, add Explanatory Documentation of the same or better quality documenting the changes made to create the Modifications of the Model; and"
- 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 "Retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Give any recipients a copy of this License Agreement;" Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "Retain all Explanatory Documentation; and if sharing Modifications of the Model, add Explanatory Documentation of the same or better quality documenting the changes made to create the Modifications of the Model; and"
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Give any recipients a copy of this License Agreement;" Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "Retain all Explanatory Documentation; and if sharing Modifications of the Model, add Explanatory Documentation of the same or better quality documenting the changes made to create the Modifications of the Model; and"
- changed permission odrl:reproduce
  
  was permission odrl:reproduce
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement and where and as applicable, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, copyright license to reproduce, prepare, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense under the terms herein, and distribute the Model and Modifications of the Model."
- changed prohibition dalicc:exemptedMaterial
  
  was prohibition dalicc:exemptedMaterial
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The Data is not licensed under this License Agreement."
- changed prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  was prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Nothing in this License Agreement permits You to make Use of Licensors’ trademarks, trade names, logos or to otherwise suggest endorsement or misrepresent the relationship between the parties; and any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by the Licensors."
- 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.
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