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Open Aleph License
THE WORKS (AS DEFINED BELOW) ARE LICENSED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS OPEN ALEPH
LICENSE (“OAL” OR “LICENSE”) VERSION 1.0.
This source available license agreement governs the use, distribution, modification, and sharing of a
foundational AI model and its associated software and documentation. This license agreement is in-
tended to promote collaborative research and development and transparency while ensuring that im-
provements and modifications made to such foundational AI model and its associated software remain
accessible to the community. By exercising any of the rights granted in this license agreement, you
agree to the terms of this license agreement.
License Terms
1 Definitions
"License“ means this license agreement.
“Licensor” means IPAI Aleph Alpha Research GmbH or its legal successor
“Non-Administrative” means the use described in Section 4.
“Non-Commercial” means the use described in Section 3.
"Work“ means any source code, binaries, files, data, data models, databases and other materials in-
cluding documentation made available under this License. For clarity, Licensor does not claim any rights
to the output generated by using the Works and Derivative Works in compliance with this License.
“Derivative Work” means a work based on or containing any Work licensed under this License or a
portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language.
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otherwise publicly available, and reproduce the Works and Derivative Works under Licensor’s copyright,
for any Non-Commercial and Non-Administrative purpose.
You may not use, copy, modify, distribute, make otherwise publicly available, reproduce, or sublicense the
Works or Derivative Works except as expressly provided under and in accordance with this License.Your
rights granted under this License will automatically terminate if you fail to comply with any of the
terms of this License.
3 Non-Commercial use
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mercial advantage or monetary compensation.
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without limitation, any use for the following purposes:
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