key: bigscience-rail-1.0 short_name: BigScience RAIL License v1.0 name: BigScience RAIL License v1.0 category: Proprietary Free owner: HuggingFace homepage_url: https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigscience/license spdx_license_key: LicenseRef-scancode-bigscience-rail-1.0 text: "BigScience RAIL License v1.0\ndated May 19, 2022\n\nThis is a license (the “License”)\ \ between you (“You”) and the participants of BigScience (“Licensor”). Whereas the Apache\ \ 2.0 license was applicable to resources used to develop the Model, the licensing conditions\ \ have been modified for the access and distribution of the Model. This has been done to further\ \ BigScience’s aims of promoting not just open-access to its artifacts, but also a responsible\ \ use of these artifacts. Therefore, this Responsible AI License (RAIL)[1] aims at having\ \ an open and permissive character while striving for responsible use of the Model.\n\n\n\ \ Section I: PREAMBLE\n\ \n\nBigScience is a collaborative open innovation project aimed at the responsible development\ \ and use of large multilingual datasets and Large Language Models (“LLM”), as well as, the\ \ documentation of best practices and tools stemming from this collaborative effort. Further,\ \ BigScience participants wish to promote collaboration and sharing of research artifacts\ \ - including the Model - for the benefit of society, pursuant to this License.\n\n\nThe development\ \ and use of LLMs, and broadly artificial intelligence (“AI”), does not come without concerns.\ \ The world has witnessed how just a few companies/institutions are able to develop LLMs,\ \ and moreover, how Natural Language Processing techniques might, in some instances, become\ \ a risk for the public in general. Concerns might come in many forms, from racial discrimination\ \ to the treatment of sensitive information. \n\n\nBigScience believes in the intersection\ \ between open and responsible AI development, thus, this License aims to strike a balance\ \ between both in order to enable responsible open-science for large language models and future\ \ NLP techniques. \nThis License governs the use of the BigScience BLOOM models (and their\ \ derivatives) and is informed by both the BigScience Ethical Charter and the model cards\ \ associated with the BigScience BLOOM models. BigScience has set forth its Ethical Charter\ \ representing the values of its community. 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To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;\n7. To impersonate\ \ or attempt to impersonate others;\n8. For fully automated decision making that adversely\ \ impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable\ \ obligation;\n9. For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against\ \ or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or\ \ predicted personal or personality characteristics\n10. To exploit any of the vulnerabilities\ \ of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics,\ \ in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner\ \ that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological\ \ harm;\n11. For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals\ \ or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories;\n12. 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