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MODEL - LICENSE TO USE
The Model (as defined below) is made available to You by Alexandra Instituttet A/S,
Åbogade 34, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark and may be utilised solely in accordance with the
license terms stipulated in this document.
The license is based on "AI PUBS OPEN RAIL-M LICENSE", a copy of which is attached
hereto with the following additions:
1. The license is governed by the laws of the Kingdom of Denmark
2. Any dispute arising out of or in connection herewith, including any disputes regarding
the existence, validity or termination of the license, shall be first referred to
mediation administered by the Danish Institute of Arbitration in accordance with the
Rules on Mediation adopted by the Board of the Danish Institute of Arbitration. If
the mediation proceedings are terminated without a settlement, the dispute shall be
finally settled by arbitration administered by the Danish Institute of Arbitration in
accordance with the Rules of Arbitration adopted by the Board of the Danish Institute
of Arbitration. The arbitral tribunal shall be composed of three arbitrators. The
place of arbitration shall be Aarhus, Denmark. The language to be used in the
arbitral proceedings shall be the English language.
3. If, at any time, the compilation, storage, utilisation, or processing of the Model,
Complementary Material, or Data (all as defined below) constitute violation of
applicable laws, regardless of anything to the contrary in these conditions, the
license shall automatically become null and void without any liability for the
Licensor whatsoever.
4. Supplementing Attachment A to the AI PUBS OPEN RAIL-M LICENSE, You additionally agree
not to use the Model or its Derivatives:
(a) To impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent its affiliation
with a person or entity, including (but not limited to) the creation of synthetic
speech (i) emulating a specific natural person or (ii) which is found to be
similar to a specific natural person's speech (regardless of whether the identity
of such natural person is known at the time of the creation); or
(b) To detect or infer aspects and/or features of an identity of any natural persons,
such as name, family name, address, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion,
age, location (at any geographical level), skin color, society or political
affiliations, employment status and/or employment history, and health and medical
conditions.
AI PUBS OPEN RAIL-M LICENSE
Version 0.1, March 2, 2023
http://licenses.ai/
Section I:  PREAMBLE
This OpenRAIL-M License is generally applicable to any machine-learning Model.
The “Open” nomenclature indicates that the licensed Model is be freely accessible to
downstream and other users.  The “RAIL” nomenclature indicates that there are use
restrictions prohibiting the use of the Model. These restrictions are intended to avoid
potential misuse. Even though derivative versions of the Model could be released under
different licensing terms, the License specifies that the  use restrictions in the
original License must apply to such derivatives.
NOW THEREFORE, You and Licensor agree as follows:
1. Definitions 
(a) “Complementary Material” means the applicable source code and scripts used to
define, run, load, benchmark or evaluate the Model, and used to prepare data for
training or evaluation, if any. This includes any accompanying documentation,
tutorials, examples, etc, if any. Complementary Material is not licensed under
this License.
(b) "Contribution" means any work, including the original version of the Model and
any modifications or additions to that Model or Derivatives of the Model
thereof, that is intentionally submitted to Licensor for inclusion in the Model
by the rights owner or by an individual or legal entity authorized to submit on
behalf of the rights 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 rights owner as
"Not a Contribution." 
(c) "Contributor"  means Licensor and any individual or legal entity on behalf of
whom a Contribution has been received by Licensor and subsequently incorporated
within the Model.
(d) “Data” means a collection of information and/or content 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. 
(e) “Derivatives of the Model” means all modifications to the Model, works based on
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, to the
other model, in order to cause the other model to perform similarly to the
Model, including - but not limited to - distillation methods entailing the use
of intermediate data representations or methods based on the generation of
synthetic data by the Model for training the other model.
(f) “Distribution” means any transmission, reproduction, publication or other
sharing of the Model or Derivatives of the Model to a third party, including
providing the Model as a hosted service made available by electronic or other
remote means - e.g. API-based or web access. 
(g) “Harm” includes but is not limited to physical, mental, psychological, financial
and reputational damage, pain, or loss.
(h) "License" means the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and Distribution
as defined in this document.
(i) “Licensor” means the rights owner or entity authorized by the rights owner that
is granting the License, including the persons or entities that may have rights
in the Model and/or distributing the Model.
(j) “Model” means any accompanying machine-learning based assemblies (including
checkpoints), consisting of learnt weights, parameters (including optimizer
states), corresponding to the model architecture as embodied in the
Complementary Material, that have been trained or tuned, in whole or in part on
the Data, using the Complementary Material. 
(k) “Output” means the results of operating a Model as embodied in informational
content resulting therefrom.
(l) “Third Parties” means individuals or legal entities that are not under common
control with Licensor or You.
(m) "You" (or "Your")  means an individual or legal entity exercising permissions
granted by this License and/or making use of the Model for whichever purpose and
in any field of use, including usage of the Model in an end-use application -
e.g. chatbot, translator, image generator.
Section II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Both copyright and patent grants may apply to the Model and Derivatives of the Model.
The Model and Derivatives of the Model are subject to additional terms as described in
Section III, which shall govern the use of the Model and Derivatives of the Model even
in the event Section II is held unenforceable.
2. Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each
Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge,
royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare, publicly display,
publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Model and Derivatives of the Model.
3. Grant of Patent License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License and
where and as applicable, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual,
worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in
this paragraph) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import,
and otherwise transfer the Model and/or Derivatives of the Model where such license
applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are
necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their
Contribution(s) with the Model or Derivatives of the Model to which such
Contribution(s) was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against any entity
(including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Model or
Derivative of the Model and/or a Contribution incorporated within the Model or
Derivative of the Model constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then
any patent licenses granted to You under this License for the Model and/or Derivative
of the Model shall terminate as of the date such litigation is asserted or filed.
Section III: CONDITIONS OF USAGE, DISTRIBUTION AND REDISTRIBUTION
4. Distribution and Redistribution. You may host for Third Party remote access purposes
(e.g. software-as-a-service), reproduce and distribute copies of the Model or
Derivatives of the Model thereof in any medium, with or without modifications,
provided that You meet the following conditions:
(a) Use-based restrictions in paragraph 5 MUST be included as an enforceable
provision by You in any type of legal agreement (e.g. a license) governing the
use and/or distribution of the Model or Derivatives of the Model, and You shall
give notice to subsequent users You Distribute to, that the Model or Derivatives
of the Model are subject to paragraph 5. 
(b) You must give any Third Party recipients of the Model or Derivatives of the Model
a copy of this License; 
(c) You must cause any modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You
changed the files; 
(d) You must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices
excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Model, Derivatives
of the Model.
You may add Your own copyright statement to Your modifications and may provide
additional or different license terms and conditions - respecting paragraph 4.a. -
for use, reproduction, or Distribution of Your modifications, or for any such
Derivatives of the Model as a whole, provided Your use, reproduction, and
Distribution of the Model otherwise complies with the conditions stated in this
License.
5. Use-based restrictions. The restrictions set forth in Attachment A are considered
Use-based restrictions. Therefore You cannot use the Model or the Derivatives of the
Model in violation of such restrictions. You may use the Model subject to this
License, including only for lawful purposes and in accordance with the
License. Use may include creating any content with, fine-tuning, updating, running,
training, evaluating and/or re-parametrizing the Model. You shall require all of Your
users who use the Model or a Derivative of the Model to comply with the terms of this
paragraph 5. 
6. The Output You Generate. Except as set forth herein, Licensor claims no rights in
the Output You generate using the Model. You are accountable for the Output you
generate and its subsequent uses. No use of the output can contravene any provision
as stated in the License. 
Section IV: OTHER PROVISIONS
7. Updates and Runtime Restrictions. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Licensor
reserves the right to restrict (remotely or otherwise) usage of the Model in
violation of this License, update the Model through electronic means, or modify the
Output of the Model based on updates. 
8. Trademarks and related. Nothing in this License 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.
9. 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 redistributing
the Model and Derivatives of the Model, and assume any risks associated with Your
exercise of permissions under this License.
10. 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 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, or
any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if such Contributor has been
advised of the possibility of such damages.
11. Accepting Warranty or Additional Liability. While redistributing the Model or
Derivatives of the Model, You may choose to charge a fee in exchange for support,
warranty, indemnity, or other obligations and/or rights consistent with this
License. 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.
12. If any provision of this License is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable,
the remaining provisions shall be unaffected thereby and remain valid as if such
provision had not been set forth herein.
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Attachment A
USE RESTRICTIONS
You agree not to use the Model or its Derivatives in any of the following ways:
1. Legal 
(a) In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or
international law or regulation.
2. Harm and Discrimination
(a) For the purpose of exploiting, Harming or attempting to exploit or Harm minors in
any way;
(b) To generate or disseminate false information with the purpose of Harming others;
(c) To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to
Harm an individual;
(d) To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;
(e) For any use intended to or which has the effect of Harming individuals or groups
based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or
personality characteristics.
(f) 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 belonging to that group in a manner that causes
or is likely to cause that person or another person Harm
(g) For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against
individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories.
3. Transparency
(a) To generate or disseminate machine-generated information or content in any medium
  without expressly and intelligibly disclaiming that it is machine-generated;
(b) To impersonate or attempt to impersonate human beings for purposes of deception;
(c) For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal
rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation.