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I am writing to respectfully follow up on the review status of the ModelGo licenses, namely the ModelGo Zero License (MG0-2.0) and the ModelGo Attribution License (MG-BY-2.0).</div>
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I have noticed that the review process for the ModelGo licenses appears to have been frozen again for approximately two months, with no visible progress or further discussion on the mailing list. I also reviewed the latest available OSI Board meeting minutes,
and it seems that discussion of the ModelGo licenses has been muted or absent there as well.</div>
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Since my first submission of the ModelGo licenses to OSI in Feb 2025, we have witnessed the continued growth of Open Source AI activities. Open models and open AI ecosystems are becoming an increasingly significant and transformative force. At the same time,
the community is also facing a growing challenge from open washing practices, where custom pseudo-open licenses are used to present restricted AI models as open source.</div>
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This was precisely one of the motivations behind the ModelGo license project. My project manager and I started this work because we believed that the open source community needs a reusable, community-reviewed licensing framework for open models one that can
support genuinely open model sharing while distinguishing it from proprietary or pseudo-open licensing practices.</div>
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As a research institution, we have invested both project funding and considerable effort into the development, revision, and resubmission of these licenses. We fully understand that OSI review is rigorous and that the committee and community members are contributing
their time and expertise. However, whether the final outcome is approval or rejection, we respectfully need an answer rather than continued silence.</div>
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If there are remaining concerns, unresolved objections, or additional information that OSI needs from us, please let us know. We remain willing to provide clarifications, revise the text where appropriate, and engage constructively with the review process.</div>
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Finally, I would like to sincerely thank the OSI license review team and all community members who have previously discussed and contributed feedback on the ModelGo licenses. Their comments have been valuable in helping us improve the drafts and better understand
the expectations of the OSI license review process.</div>
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<b>From: </b>Moming Duan <duanmoming@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, May 26, 2026 at 14:15<br>
<b>To: </b>License submissions for OSI review <license-review@lists.opensource.org><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Pamela Chestek <pamela@chesteklegal.com>; Josh Berkus <josh@berkus.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [License-review] [3rd Resubmission] ModelGo Zero License (MG0-2.0) AND ModelGo Attribution License (MG-BY-2.0)<br>
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Thanks again for all the feedback over the past year, it's been really helpful.</div>
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<b><i>A quick follow-up on two things </i></b></div>
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The board minutes from January 16 mentioned that ModelGo licenses were still in discussions. Just wanted to check in, what's the latest major concern about these two licenses? Happy to work on addressing it : )</div>
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<b><i>On Pam's point about Output in the Limitation of Liability:</i></b></div>
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Just to follow up on that, with AI agents now generating and auto-executing code, the risk around model output has gotten pretty real, so having Output explicitly covered in the disclaimer and limitation of liability seems like a meaningful protection. And
I noticed that both Meta (Llama) and Google (Gemma) also mention Output in their warranty disclaimers, which might be for similar reasons. So I'm leaning toward keeping it as is, but happy to hear if others feel differently.</div>
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Best,</div>
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<b>From: </b>License-review <license-review-bounces@lists.opensource.org> on behalf of Pamela Chestek <pamela@chesteklegal.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, December 15, 2025 at 20:52<br>
<b>To: </b>license-review@lists.opensource.org <license-review@lists.opensource.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [License-review] [3rd Resubmission] ModelGo Zero License (MG0-2.0) AND ModelGo Attribution License (MG-BY-2.0)<br>
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<p class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">As I read it, there is only one thing that applies to Output, which is in the Limitation of Liability. But does the fact that you mention it in the first place lead to a negative implication that you
haven't granted the necessary rights to create Output? With software it's been a fairly bright line that any output isn't subject matter of the license unless it's a derivative work. Here, though, you have created ambiguity about the legal status of the output
by mentioning it and also made the license much more complicated. </p>
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<i>might</i> be avoiding is from the person creating the output. The Limitation on Liability won't be a defense to any claims from copyright owners, or those whose loved one harmed themselves because the model encouraged them to do so, or criminal liability.
So I don't think it's worth the trade-off, although I wouldn't reject the license for that reason.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/8/2025 6:57 PM, Moming Duan wrote:</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">licenses</span> that address the comments from the second resubmission. The major modification is the exclusion of models created through distillation from the definition of Derivative Materials, along with two improvements
suggested by McCoy. I have also provided word-diff comparisons with the previous versions. Please feel free to share any comments.</div>
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MG0: <a href="https://www.diffchecker.com/f8OumPRF/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" data-outlook-id="445195c5-a451-4382-9b73-feb11e93d9fe">
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License Introduction (MG0-2.0)</div>
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<b>License Name</b>: ModelGo Zero License</div>
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<b>Version</b>: 2.0</div>
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<b>Short Identifier: </b>MG0-2.0</div>
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<b>Copyleft: </b>No</div>
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<b>Legacy or New</b>: New License</div>
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<b>Drafted By Lawyer</b>: Yes, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP</div>
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<b>Approved or Used by Projects</b>: No</div>
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<a href="https://www.modelgo.li/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" data-outlook-id="e31f91fc-02f4-4dc6-906a-8f6531013cdd">
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MG0-2.0 is the most permissive license in the ModelGo family.</div>
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OSD 5 and OSD 6 No discrimination clause is included in MG0-2.0.</div>
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OSD 9 License Must Not Restrict Other Software No such restriction is included in MG0-2.0.</div>
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<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Model sharing is very common on the web, with over 1.4 million models currently listed on Hugging Face (<a href="https://huggingface.co/models" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" data-outlook-id="8ffb9369-026d-43d8-90ea-6655516f4eea">https://huggingface.co/models</a>).
However, most of these models are not properly licensed. When publishing their models, developers typically choose from three main options (as seen in the model license tags on the Hugging Face website):</div>
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<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Traditional OSS licenses lack clear definitions regarding machine learning concepts, such as Models, Output, and Derivatives created through knowledge transfer. This ambiguity can result in certain
ML activities (e.g., Distillation, Mix-of-Expert) being beyond the control of the model owner.</div>
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<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Recently, Responsible AI Licenses (<a href="https://www.licenses.ai/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" data-outlook-id="055b511f-2537-4697-8f2a-14a2ba8d015e">https://www.licenses.ai/</a>) have been
widely advocated to govern AI technologies, aiming to restrict unlawful and unethical uses of models. While I acknowledge the growing need for such governance, these copyleft-style restrictions do not comply with the OSD and may cause incompatibility with
licenses like GPL-3.0. Another concern is that these behavioral restrictions may proliferate within the AI model ecosystem, increasing the risk of license breaches.</div>
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<b>Why not use Llama2 or Llama3 Licenses?</b></div>
<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><span style="color: rgb(255, 19, 255);">These licenses are proprietary licenses that are not reusable. Furthermo</span>re, they include exclusive terms such as "You will not use the Llama Materials
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resort to using CC licenses with different elements. However, CC licenses are ill-suited for this purpose as they do not grant patent rights. This motivated the drafting of ModelGo License family, which provides different licensing elements similar to CC but
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<li><span style="color: rgb(255, 19, 255);" role="presentation">MG0-2.0 defines licensed materials and derivative works differently from Apache-2.0, tailoring them to models.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(255, 19, 255);" role="presentation">MG0-2.0 can govern the remote access (e.g., chatbot) scenario.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(255, 19, 255);" role="presentation">MG0-2.0 does not require retaining attribution or stating modifications when redistributing derivatives.</span></li></ul>
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<b>License Name</b>: ModelGo Attribution License</div>
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<b>Version</b>: 2.0</div>
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<b>Short Identifier: </b>MG-BY-2.0</div>
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<b>Copyleft: </b>No</div>
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<b>Legacy or New</b>: New License</div>
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<b>Drafted By Lawyer</b>: Yes, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP</div>
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<b>Approved or Used by Projects</b>: No</div>
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https://ids.nus.edu.sg/modelgo-mg-by.html</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.modelgo.li/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" data-outlook-id="5f859274-e9e2-4999-8187-8e46ac1acdae">
https://www.modelgo.li/</a></div>
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family. MG-BY-2.0 is the a permissive license in the ModelGo family, requiring that the original license
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and attribution</span> be provided when distributing the original Licensed Materials or Derivative Materia<span style="color: rgb(255, 19, 255);">ls (Licensed Materials and Derivative Materials are defined</span> in Clause
1). <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">A statement of modification is required, if applicable.</span></div>
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(Red content represents the differences from MG0-2.0 license)</div>
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<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Model sharing is very common on the web, with over 1.4 million models currently listed on Hugging Face (<a href="https://huggingface.co/models" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" data-outlook-id="eb030f70-707a-4f30-a869-b5b205617052">https://huggingface.co/models</a>).
However, most of these models are not properly licensed. When publishing their models, developers typically choose from three main options (as seen in the model license tags on the Hugging Face website):</div>
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<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Traditional OSS licenses lack clear definitions regarding machine learning concepts, such as Models, Output, and Derivatives created through knowledge transfer. This ambiguity can result in certain
ML activities (e.g., Distillation, Mix-of-Expert) being beyond the control of the model owner.</div>
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<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Recently, Responsible AI Licenses (<a href="https://www.licenses.ai/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" data-outlook-id="a31d11c9-eded-4437-9ffb-cf76814b6feb">https://www.licenses.ai/</a>) have been
widely advocated to govern AI technologies, aiming to restrict unlawful and unethical uses of models. While I acknowledge the growing need for such governance, these copyleft-style restrictions do not comply with the OSD and may cause incompatibility with
licenses like GPL-3.0. Another concern is that these behavioral restrictions may proliferate within the AI model ecosystem, increasing the risk of license breaches.</div>
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<b>Why not use Llama2 or Llama3 Licenses?</b></div>
<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><span style="color: rgb(255, 19, 255);">These licenses are proprietary licenses that are not reusable. Furthe</span>rmore, they include exclusive terms such as "You will not use the Llama Materials
or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model" and copyleft-style behavioral restrictions.</div>
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resort to using CC licenses with different elements. However, CC licenses are ill-suited for this purpose as they do not grant patent rights. This motivated the drafting of ModelGo License family, which provides different licensing elements similar to CC but
specifically designed for model publishing.</div>
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Since I could not find an OSI-approved model license, I can only compare MG-BY-2.0 with one similar OSS license Apache-2.0</div>
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