ModelGo Zero License
Version 2.0, Mar 2025

This License is solely for the purpose of governing the use, reproduction, Distribution, 
modification or creation of derivative works from Licensed Materials. By exercising the rights 
granted in Section 2.1, You acknowledge and agree that You have read, understood, and agree 
to be bound by the terms and conditions of this License. If You do not agree to any terms 
and/or conditions of this License, then Licensor grants You no rights under this License.

1.	DEFINITIONS

“Complementary Materials” means the source code and scripts used to define, run, load, 
benchmark and/or evaluate the Model, and prepare data for the purpose of training, pretraining, 
fine-tuning and/or evaluation of the Model, and any tutorials, operating manuals, user guides 
and/or documentation that guide users in using, operating, implementing and/or customising 
the Model.

"Derivative Materials" means all improvements, modifications or derivative works to the 
Licensed Material or any part thereof, which are created or developed by You (either by 
Yourself or jointly with other third parties), including any new model developed by transferring 
patterns of weights, parameters, activations and/or Output from the Model, such as through 
distillation methods or synthetic data generation techniques.

“Distribution” (or “Distribute”) means any transmission, publication, public performance, 
sharing, or other methods of marking the Licensed Materials, Derivative Materials and/or 
Output available to a third party, including provision of the Licensed Materials or any part 
thereof as a hosted service or remotely accessible service, such as API-based access or web 
access.

“Licensor” means the rights owner that is granting the License.

“Licensed Materials” means, collectively, the Model and Complementary Materials that are 
Distributed by the Licensor under this License. For the avoidance of doubt, the Licensed 
Materials do not include any datasets used for pretraining, training, adapting, or evaluating the 
Model.

“Model” means the machine-learning constructs and/or assemblies licensed by the Licensor 
under this License, including any checkpoints, learned weights, parameters (including optimizer 
states) and the model architecture.

“Output” means any content, including but not limited to images, text, text effects, audio files, 
and/or video files, generated through operation of the Model and/or any new model developed 
by transferring patterns from the Model.

"You" (or "Your") means you, or any other person or entity (if you are entering into this license 
on behalf of such person or entity and provided you have the legal authority to bind such 
person or entity).

2.	LICENSE RIGHTS

2.1	Grant of Rights

(a)	Subject to the conditions of this License, the Licensor hereby grants to You a non-
exclusive, non-transferable, sublicensable, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide right 
and license (including the relevant copyrights, patent rights, and database rights) to:

(i)	use, reproduce and Distribute the Licensed Materials;

(ii)	use the Licensed Materials to create Derivative Materials; and

(iii)	use, reproduce, and Distribute Derivative Materials.

2.2	Conditions

(a)	If You Distribute any of the Licensed Materials or Derivative Materials, You shall:

(i)	provide a copy of this License with the Licensed Material or Derivative Materials.

2.3	Reservation of Rights

You shall not refer to the Licensor or use the Licensor’s trademarks, trade names, and service 
marks, for any publicity, advertising or marketing purposes, without the Licensor’s prior written 
consent.

3.	DISCLAIMER

To the maximum extent permissible under applicable law, the Licensed Materials are provided 
on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any representation, warranty, condition, or term of 
any kind (whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise), including of merchantability, 
satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, 
correctness, absence of error, reliability, timeliness, non-infringement of or compliance with any 
laws, regulations and/or third-party rights, all of which are expressly disclaimed by the Licensor.

4.	LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the maximum extent permissible under applicable law, the Licensor shall not be liable for 
any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages 
(including, but not limited to, loss of profits, data, or business opportunities) arising out of or in 
connection with the Licensed Materials, Derivative Materials, and/or Output, whether on an 
action or claim in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, 
even if the Licensor has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

5.	TERMINATION

The Licensor may terminate this License if You breach any material term and/or condition of 
this License, or if You initiate legal action against the Licensor alleging that the Licensed 
Materials or Derivative Materials infringe any patent worldwide.

6.	MODIFICATION OF THIS LICENSE

This License is Copyright © 2024 National University of Singapore. Permission is granted to 
copy, distribute, or communicate this License without modification. Nothing in this License 
permits You to modify this License as applied to the Licensed Materials or to Derivative 
Materials. However, You may modify the text of this License and copy, distribute or 
communicate Your modified version and apply it to other original works of authorship, provided 
that You not use the name “ModelGo” for your version of the license and furnish a readable 
notice describing Your modifications to this license.
