[License-review] Notice requirement for model output: OSD-compliant or not? (ModelGo)

[Josh Berkus]

All,

I wanted to have a quick discussion here about a specific kind of 
requirement in the ModelGo-OS license:


 >> 2.4.b.:  "You may Distribute the Output to third parties provided 
that You indicate as part of the Distribution that any Output generated 
through the use of the Licensed Materials and/or Derivative Materials 
may contain AI-generated content."
 >> ... this is a pretty novel notice requirement, with no parallel in 
accepted non-AI licenses; can you explain the motivation behind it and 
intended effect?

 >I intend for model users to add a proper notice when distributing 
generated content. This is not a restriction on using the content for 
specific purposes but rather a requirement to attribute the generated 
content as AI-assisted, helping to reduce misinformation and misleading 
claims.
 >Currently, many AI systems implement similar mechanisms. For example, 
DeepSeek displays a pop-up when providing legal advice (see below), 
which is one way to comply with this clause.
 >Notably, Clause 2.4(b) does not require adding a watermark to 
generated content, as this could negatively impact content quality.

If you take out the AI aspects of this, this feels like an "advertising 
requirement", except that conventionally advertising requirements are 
about advertising the upstream contributors, as opposed to having a 
caution about usage.  So it's maybe not the same.

As Moming points out, this is likely to be a popular type of requirement 
since it's common practice already.  So I think we should figure out if 
it's problematic for the OSD or not.

-- 
Josh Berkus