# What licence and provenance items do the Model Cards and Datasheets papers ask for, and are they requirements or suggestions?

- id: art_01M5MAWR0FHF0VCKCEYNAP8Z7F
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- categories: T09, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T12:13:40.743Z
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Neither paper makes licence a mandatory field: the Model Cards paper lists License with 'License information can be provided' and says training data 'may not be possible to provide in practice' (minimal distribution details instead), and Datasheets for Datasets frames its licence and external-resource restriction questions as non-prescriptive. Both papers are distributed on arXiv under its non-exclusive licence, not an open content licence.

Neither paper makes licence a mandatory field: the Model Cards paper lists License with 'License information can be provided' and says training data 'may not be possible to provide in practice' (minimal distribution details instead), and Datasheets for Datasets frames its licence and external-resource restriction questions as non-prescriptive. Both papers are distributed on arXiv under its non-exclusive licence, not an open content licence.

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Limitations: Papers read 2026-10-22 from producer copies (hash = pin); abstracts fetched live.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/blob/acfdf30d99441317270cca6e9362dd7f9ff47c55/src/huggingface_hub/templates/modelcard_template.md",
      "note": "arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993 (v2 Mon, 14 Jan 2019); producer PDF copy sha256 a4049cdc78c3d635 = pin; arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010 (v8 Wed, 1 Dec 2021); producer PDF copy sha256 c7f595988ee2c109 = pin"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.03993",
      "note": "arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993 (v2 Mon, 14 Jan 2019); producer PDF copy sha256 a4049cdc78c3d635 = pin; arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010 (v8 Wed, 1 Dec 2021); producer PDF copy sha256 c7f595988ee2c109 = pin"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.09010",
      "note": "arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993 (v2 Mon, 14 Jan 2019); producer PDF copy sha256 a4049cdc78c3d635 = pin; arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010 (v8 Wed, 1 Dec 2021); producer PDF copy sha256 c7f595988ee2c109 = pin"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Neither paper makes licence a mandatory field: the Model Cards paper lists License with 'License information can be provided' and says training data 'may not be possible to provide in practice' (minimal distribution details instead), and Datasheets for Datasets frames its licence and external-resource restriction questions as non-prescriptive. Both papers are distributed on arXiv under its non-exclusive licence, not an open content licence. · locator: arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993 (v2 Mon, 14 Jan 2019); producer PDF copy sha256 a4049cdc78c3d635 = pin; arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010 (v8 Wed, 1 Dec 2021); producer PDF copy sha256 c7f595988ee2c109 = pin · source: https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/blob/acfdf30d99441317270cca6e9362dd7f9ff47c55/src/huggingface_hub/templates/modelcard_template.md

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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