{"id":"Apple-ML-Research-Model-License","title":"Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement","reviewed_on":"2026-09-22","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://huggingface.co/apple/DepthPro/raw/main/LICENSE","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"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.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"info","field":"dct:title","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:target","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"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\".","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"minor","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction","description":"\"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.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"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.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"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.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer against dg_default returned an empty conflict list.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"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.","action":"none"}],"family":"Model licences","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"variant_of":null,"notes":"Modelled from the copy of the agreement published in the model repository the evidence names. cc:legalcode points at that raw text and dct:source at the same file in its repository. dct:publisher is Apple Inc., from the copyright line \"Copyright (C) 2025 Apple Inc. All Rights Reserved.\" dalicc:sublicense is left out in either position: the grant is \"non-transferable\" but says nothing about sublicensing, and redistribution with a copy of the agreement is not the same act."}