👮Licensing

This page talks about different licenses available at Supervised and which one you should use for your LLMs.

What are licenses?

Licenses are commonly used to define the terms under which software can be distributed, modified, and used.

MIT License

This is a permissive license that allows users to do almost anything with the software, including modifying, distributing, and using it for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. It requires including the original license and copyright notice in all copies of the software.

Apache License 2.0

This is also a permissive license that permits users to use, modify, and distribute the software for any purpose, including commercial use. It provides patent rights to users and includes a patent termination clause.

GNU General Public License (GPL) v3

This is a copyleft license that requires any derivative work or software incorporating GPL-licensed code to be released under the same license. It grants users the freedom to use, modify, and distribute the software, including for commercial purposes, but with the condition that the source code remains open and available.

GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) v3

This license is similar to the GPL but allows for more permissive use in certain cases. It is often used for libraries, enabling them to be linked with both open source and proprietary software.

BSD 3-Clause License

This is a permissive license that permits users to use, modify, and distribute the software for any purpose, including commercial use. It requires including the original license and copyright notice in all copies of the software.

Creative Commons Licenses

While not specific to software, Creative Commons licenses are used to specify the permissions and restrictions for creative works, including code. These licenses have different variants, such as Attribution (CC BY), ShareAlike (CC BY-SA), and NonCommercial (CC BY-NC), among others, which define the conditions under which the work can be used, modified, and shared.

Private Proprietary Project (PPP) Licenses

This is a private project license which is used to register the model on your name at first and restrict its access to you only. Later, you can switch this license to any other.

This is best for non-monetisable models that are being built for individuals/companies exclusively.

Supervised Commercial Licenses (SCL)

Supervised Commercial License is our recommended license to use while creating monetisable models. This allows devellopers to modify the code as per their needs and lets you change a one-time fee to use that model.