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What do the texts of OpenRAIL-M, Llama 3.3/4 community, Gemma and OpenMDW licences say about use restrictions, derivatives and outputs?

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For CreativeML OpenRAIL-M (2022-08-22 text), the licensor claims no rights in Output, but the same clause says no use of the output may contravene the licence, so the use-based restrictions still reach output use; providing a hosted service counts as Distribution. The Llama 4 and Llama 3.3 licences (llama-models 0e0b8c51, re-read 2026-10-22) require adherence to a per-version Acceptable Use Policy and, if Llama materials or outputs are used to create, train or improve an AI model that is distributed, require the model's name to begin with 'Llama'; neither text contains a 'no rights in output' statement. OpenMDW-1.1 imposes no restrictions or obligations on outputs; its conditions are keeping the agreement and notices, plus termination on patent or copyright litigation. The Gemma Terms of Use (live page, last modified 1 April 2026) incorporate the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy, state that Google claims no rights in Outputs, and define Model Derivatives to include models trained on Gemm...

For CreativeML OpenRAIL-M (2022-08-22 text), the licensor claims no rights in Output, but the same clause says no use of the output may contravene the licence, so the use-based restrictions still reach output use; providing a hosted service counts as Distribution. The Llama 4 and Llama 3.3 licences (llama-models 0e0b8c51, re-read 2026-10-22) require adherence to a per-version Acceptable Use Policy and, if Llama materials or outputs are used to create, train or improve an AI model that is distributed, require the model's name to begin with 'Llama'; neither text contains a 'no rights in output' statement. OpenMDW-1.1 imposes no restrictions or obligations on outputs; its conditions are keeping the agreement and notices, plus termination on patent or copyright litigation. The Gemma Terms of Use (live page, last modified 1 April 2026) incorporate the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy, state that Google claims no rights in Outputs, and define Model Derivatives to include models trained on Gemma output (for example by distillation), so output used to train another model brings it under the derivative terms. Google's 'Gemma 4 license' link leads to the Apache License 2.0 text, which does not incorporate the Prohibited Use Policy: Gemma 4 is offered under Apache 2.0 while earlier Gemma models stay under the Gemma Terms. Check which Gemma generation a checkpoint belongs to before applying either reading. Clause text only; no legal conclusion. Curator qualifications: Summaries saying only 'licensor claims no rights in Output' must carry the 'may not contravene' qualifier (C2-B81-AUDIT2 hint). Llama 4/3.3, Gemma and OpenMDW clause readings (E2-E7) not reinspected in this batch. No legal conclusion; clause text only. Amendments applied: CA-AM-0099, CA-AM-0100. Limitations: RAIL-M strand only. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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    {
      "url": "https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/0e0b8c519242d5833d8c11bffc1232b77ad7f301/models/llama4/LICENSE",
      "note": "CompVis/stable-diffusion LICENSE @21f890f9 lines 23, 28, 51"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/0e0b8c519242d5833d8c11bffc1232b77ad7f301/models/llama3_3/LICENSE",
      "note": "CompVis/stable-diffusion LICENSE @21f890f9 lines 23, 28, 51"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemma/terms",
      "note": "CompVis/stable-diffusion LICENSE @21f890f9 lines 23, 28, 51"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/OpenMDW/OpenMDW/blob/b26b32b34ad2edcc29a7707abb68dcfb25a538c1/1.1/LICENSE.OpenMDW-1.1",
      "note": "CompVis/stable-diffusion LICENSE @21f890f9 lines 23, 28, 51"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/21f890f9da3cfbeaba8e2ac3c425ee9e998d5229/LICENSE",
      "note": "CompVis/stable-diffusion LICENSE @21f890f9 lines 23, 28, 51"
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Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] For CreativeML OpenRAIL-M (2022-08-22 text), the licensor claims no rights in Output, but the same clause says no use of the output may contravene the licence, so the use-based restrictions still reach output use; providing a hosted service counts as Distribution. The Llama 4 and Llama 3.3 licences (llama-models 0e0b8c51, re-read 2026-10-22) require adherence to a per-version Acceptable Use Policy and, if Llama materials or outputs are used to create, train or improve an AI model that is distributed, require the model's name to begin with 'Llama'; neither text contains a 'no rights in output' statement. OpenMDW-1.1 imposes no restrictions or obligations on outputs; its conditions are keeping the agreement and notices, plus termination on patent or copyright litigation. The Gemma Terms of Use (live page, last modified 1 April 2026) incorporate the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy, state that Google claims no rights in Outputs, and define Model Derivatives to include models trained on Gemma output (for example by distillation), so output used to train another model brings it under the derivative terms. Google's 'Gemma 4 license' link leads to the Apache License 2.0 text, which does not incorporate the Prohibited Use Policy: Gemma 4 is offered under Apache 2.0 while earlier Gemma models stay under the Gemma Terms. Check which Gemma generation a checkpoint belongs to before applying either reading. Clause text only; no legal conclusion. · locator: CompVis/stable-diffusion LICENSE @21f890f9 lines 23, 28, 51 source

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