📖Understanding ModelGo

How It’s Built

ModelGo Licenses V2 is a complete redraft of V1, created with NUS IDS and Singapore legal experts, inspired by OpenRAILs and Creative Commons. V2 resolves V1’s potential copyright issues (due to V1 is a remix of existing licenses). We dedicate it to the public—use ModelGo V2 with confidence.

Structure

ModelGo licenses consist of eight sections and one or two attachments. Section 2, "License Rights," is the primary provision that grants patent and copyright licenses and states the restrictions of use and distribution.

ModelGo licenses include a Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability (Section3, 4), and disclaiming any warranty of Third-Party Materials (Section 6). Additionally, our licenses include terms, as stated in Section 7, that allow you to modify the license text, provided you furnish a readable notice describing your modifications to this license.

The annex, which is separate from the Terms and Conditions of the license, consists of a Model Sheet or, in addition, a list of Use Restrictions for RAI. Your custom restriction terms can be added to the Use Restrictions list. Those changes made to the Model Sheet will not affect the license content.

Structure of MG Licenses

Timeline

Time	Event
2025-2-12	OSI is reviewing MG0, MG-BY, and MG-BY-OS
2025-2-7	ModelGo Licenses 2.0 is available on the NUS IDS website.
2024-11-26	Version 2.0 (a complete redraft) is now ready for release !!
2024-7-9	We are seeking advice from law firms.
2024-4-14	We are seeking legal collaboration to improve ModelGo Licenses.
2024-3-25	ModelGo Licenses website is online !!
2024-3-12	Moming completed the 1.0 version of ModelGo licenses.
2024-1-23	ModelGo was accepted by ACM TheWebConf24 for an oral presentation !
2023-11-13	Moming and Bingsheng came up with the idea of creating a new model license for public use.
2023-10-5	Moming, Qinbin and Bingsheng submitted the paper 'ModelGo: A Practical Tool for Machine Learning License Analysis' to ACM TheWebConf24.