With the release of the BigCode 🎅 SantaCoder model on December 22, a new Open Responsible AI License (#OpenRAIL) emerged: The "CodeML Open RAIL-M v0.1 License"

This license has "responsible use" restrictions.

Such restrictions are incompatible with the terms of #GPL (which won't be an issue so long as the developers of this model have filtered out GPL licensed code from the training set, as they say they have).

I hadn't considered the "no additional restrictions" dimension of this until now.

Another more recent example comes to mind with Hugging Face. They operate a "forge-like" service for #AI and #ML hosting.

They are also advocating for the use of "Open and Responsible AI Licenses", aka "#OpenRAIL".

These aren't #OpenSource licenses (and I think that 🤗 does a good job to avoid calling works under those licenses "open source" -- not everyone does).
https://huggingface.co/blog/open_rail

For such a new license, #OpenRAIL-M already has many variations in released artifacts. There's the OpenRAIL-M with upgrade requirements, originally used for #StableDiffusion 1.4 and 1.5, then OpenRail++-M used for StableDiffusion 2.0.

Now the "CodeML Open RAIL-M v0.1 License".

License Proliferation (e.g., ⬇️ from @sogrady) has been a real problem for the #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource software community, especially in remixing components with mutually incompatible terms.

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/08/06/licenseproliferation/

Dear Fellow Hackers,

"Stable Diffusion is a free and open source text-to-image AI".

Hold on to your papers: It's not the #FreeAndOpenSource you have come to know and love. It's not the #FOSS that created a bountiful commons that enables AI and ML to flourish.

Stable Diffusion 2.0 is a royalty free, publicly available model with responsible use restrictions detailed in the #OpenRAIL++-M license.

I think you could call it "Responsible AI" or "Ethical Source".
https://youtu.be/HytucGhwTRs

In my personal opinion, "responsible" use of #RAIL licenses ("Responsible AI Licenses" like #OpenRAIL) means mindfully avoid advertising the relevant goods as "Open Source".

It's RAIL, not #OSS.

RT @danish_c
Great to see a chapter on ML Licensing and Responsible AI Licenses in particular, in the @turingway Handbook! Nice work by @Carlos_MFerr !

#responsibleai #ai #RAIL #openrail https://twitter.com/turingway/status/1582022473755029504