👋A Standard Way for Model Publishing

Welcome to ModelGo Licenses - A standard way to publish your AI models.

📣 Recent Updates 2025.6.26

• MG0, MG-BY, and MG-BY-SA have been submitted for OSI approval.

• ModelGo Licenses will be presented as an oral talk at ICML 2025.

• ModelGo Licenses are now anchored at NUS Institute of Data Science and NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute.

Towards Better Model Sharing

ModelGo licenses provide CreativeCommons-style licensing solutions to meet your specific needs in publishing AI models. The goal of ModelGo is to facilitate managed sharing of models while protecting Intellectual Property, striking a balance between openness and control.

ModelGo Introduction Video (AI Avatar from HeyGen)

ModelGo License Options

ModelGo licenses offer you five publishing options:

• BY - Downstream model users must give credit to you, retain your attribution information, keep the original license and notice in their shared copies and modifications.

• NC - Downstream model users must run and distribute your models and derivatives of your models for Non-Commercial purposes only.

• ND - Downstream model users may Not Distribute any modified works based on your models.

• RAI - Downstream model users must ensure that their use and distribution of your models and derivatives of your models comply with the terms of Responsible use of AI.

• SA - Downstream model users must keep their distributed copies and derivatives Open Source to the public and apply the same license to their derivative work when publishing (Copyleft).

With multiple publishing options supported, ModelGo can offer you a unified solution for licensing models with different sharing purposes and policies.

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This graph visualizes model reuse behavior (model dependencies) in Hugging Face repositories. Each model is represented as a Purple node, while different-colored edges indicate various reuse methods, including Finetune, Adapter, Quantization, and Merge. From this graph, we can observe complex model dependencies.

Our vision is that as model reuse becomes increasingly prevalent, models published under different licenses may conflict with one another, leading to more repositories facing legal non-compliance issues. One of the missions of the ModelGo License is to promote a more standardized approach to model sharing.

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