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<p>I have a couple of questions:</p>
<p>The grant is for patent, copyright, database and trade secret
rights. Why is the termination only for bringing patent and
copyright lawsuits? I understand the philosophy behind special
terms for patents, but once you include copyright, why stop there?</p>
<p>As I read the license (and please correct me if I'm wrong), the
license can be applied to the model (architecture and weights),
data, software and documentation; however exactly what components
the license covers is up to the licensor. In other words, a
licensor could choose to offer the model only under the license,
or could optionally include data, software and documentation (or
other artifacts).</p>
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<p>With that assumption, the license says "YOU ARE SOLELY
RESPONSIBLE FOR (1) CLEARING RIGHTS OF OTHER PERSONS THAT MAY APPLY
TO THE MODEL MATERIALS" etc. Given that we don't know whether
training using copyrighted materials is lawful, the licensee is
being told they have to clear all training materials (not to
mention the clearances in the rest of the paragraph), an
impossibility generally, and particularly if there is not even any
disclosure of what the training materials are.</p>
<p>I don't know why this paragraph is included. The licensor has a
typical statement that the materials are provided as-is (and
disclaimers of warranty and liability) so the above clause is, in
my opinion, redundant or unnecessary. The problem with having it
is that it can be construed as a positive duty under the license
which can be breached, terminating the license. This seems
problematic; no other widely used open source license come to mind
that impose burdens beyond the license notice, attribution and
copyleft. The scenario I see playing out is that the licensor get
sued on a secondary liability theory for the licensee's use, so
the licensor advises the licensee that their license is terminated
because the licensee didn't fulfill this obligation, so the
licensor can reduce their liability based on the licensee's use
(liability that the as-is rep and the disclaimers do not insulate
them from). This leaves the licensee unexpectedly high and dry,
possibly losing their entire business, because they did not
perform an impossible task. I would not tell a user that this is
an acceptable open source license because of the potential for
termination at the licensor's whim.</p>
<p>Pam</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/13/2026 10:00 AM, Michael Dolan
wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On behalf of The Linux Foundation, the license steward, I submit the OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 ("OpenMDW-1.1"), for review and approval as a new license. The complete license text is included below in plain text (LICENSE.OpenMDW-1.1) and is also published at </span><a
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://github.com/OpenMDW/OpenMDW</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (1.1/ folder) and at </span><a
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://openmdw.ai/license/1-1/</span></a><span
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The information required for the review process is as follows.</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1. License name and version</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (\u201cOpenMDW-1.1\u201d).</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2. License steward and submitter</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Steward: The Linux Foundation</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submitter: Mike Dolan, a natural person, SVP, Legal & Strategic Programs, The Linux Foundation, submitting on behalf of the steward.</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3. OSD compliance</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I affirm that OpenMDW-1.1 complies with the Open Source Definition, including specifically: OSD 3 (the license permits modifications and derived works and their distribution under the same terms); OSD 5 (no discrimination against persons or groups); OSD 6 (no discrimination against fields of endeavor); and OSD 9 (the license does not restrict other software distributed alongside the licensed materials). The same compliance confirmations <span
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style="border-style:none;background:none">would also </span>apply to the previous OpenMDW-1.0 version.</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4. Gap filled by the license</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AI model distributions bundle heterogeneous artifacts, often including a model architecture and parameters (weights), documentation, and software, that can be subject to different and overlapping intellectual property regimes (copyright, patent, sui generis database rights). Existing OSI-approved licenses were drafted primarily for software and potentially might not, by their terms, explicitly grant rights across these regimes or address non-software artifacts such as data and model parameters. In addition, they are generally silent about the potential effect of license obligations on model outputs. At the same time, providers of commercial model solutions included terms purporting to govern and restrict use of model outputs, creating a gap with common open source licenses.</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a related motivating factor, real-world experience among academic researchers who desired to adopt the </span><a
href="https://lfaidata.foundation/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/01/05_White_paper_MOF_Specification.pdf"
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Model Openness Framework (MOF)</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for their AI model distributions\u2014but who were not deeply familiar with open source software and other open content licensing practices\u2014found it complicated to understand which specific license texts to include in which parts of their distributions. These community participants indicated to us a desire for one appropriate license that could apply to the distribution as a whole, across all applicable types of content.</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OpenMDW-1.1 addresses these gaps by providing a single permissive instrument that grants rights in all such artifacts (defined as "Model Materials") under all applicable IP regimes, conditions distribution only on retention of the license text and applicable notices, and expressly imposes no restrictions on outputs generated using the materials.</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">5. Comparison to the most similar OSI-approved licenses</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The most similar OSI-approved licenses are the MIT License and the Apache License 2.0.</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Compared to the MIT license, OpenMDW-1.1 shares MIT's brevity, its single permissive grant, the "deal in [the materials] without restriction" formulation, and the retention of the license and notices as the only condition. It differs in that OpenMDW-1.1 explicitly includes all copyright, patent, database, and trade secret rights in scope, defines its subject matter to include non-software artifacts, and expressly states that outputs are unrestricted by the license.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Compared with the Apache-2.0 license, both include a defensive litigation termination provision and expressly address patent rights. However, the termination provisions differ in scope. Apache-2.0's termination is limited to patent claims, whereas OpenMDW-1.1's termination applies to both patent and copyright assertions (the sole substantive change from OpenMDW-1.0 to OpenMDW-1.1). OpenMDW-1.1 also omits Apache-2.0's NOTICE-file and statement-of-changes requirements, conditioning redistribution only on retention of the license text and applicable notices.</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">6. Legal review</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OpenMDW was drafted by legal counsel. Version 1.0 was developed and released in 2025 by The Linux Foundation together with the PyTorch Foundation through a drafting process that included input from legal and AI community participants. <span
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style="border-style:none;background:none">There are 8+ organizations we're aware of</span> that released models using Version 1.0, including IBM and the University of Luxembourg. Version 1.1 is a minor revision based on feedback from corporate legal teams on Version 1.0; its only substantive change <span
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style="border-style:none;background:none">is extending</span> the litigation-termination provision from patent assertions to patent or copyright assertions. I am only submitting version 1.1 for review at this time, although the <span
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style="border-style:none;background:none">same review could include version 1.0 if the review committee prefers to include both.</span></span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7. Projects currently using the license. <span
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style="border-style:none;background:none">As they are very similar in their license terms,</span> I have included adoption examples for both OpenMDW-1.1 and OpenMDW-1.0.</span></p>
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<li><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NVIDIA has adopted OpenMDW-1.1 for 19 of its models, <span
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style="border-style:none;background:none">including</span> </span><a
href="https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/cosmos3"
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cosmos</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><a
href="https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Ising-Calibration-1.5-31B-BF16"
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ising</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and </span><a
href="https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nemotron</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> open model families. <span
id="m_-56303644184893493m_3140990305452718237gmail-docs-internal-guid-2ccc701e-7fff-ce5d-12f4-f72d541e1680"><span
style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">More recently, </span><a
href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7490422036767395841/"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">NVIDIA\u2019s Jensen Huang announced that its latest Alpamayo models</span></a><span
style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> are using OpenMDW-1.1 as well. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Arcee AI </span><a
href="https://www.arcee.ai/blog/trinity-is-moving-to-openmdw-1-1"
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moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">has moved 6 of its Trinity models</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to OpenMDW-1.1</span></li>
<li><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Poolside </span><a
href="https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-laguna-s-2-1"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">has adopted OpenMDW-1.1 for its Laguna S 2.1 models</span></a></li>
<li><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a
href="https://huggingface.co/BAAI/OpenSeek-Small-v1#license"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">BAAI's OpenSeek Small model</a> was also licensed under OpenMDW-1.0.</span></li>
<li><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ByteDance has published its <a
href="https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-X-Instruct-7B#license"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">entire series of Seed-X models</a> under OpenMDW-1.0.</span></li>
<li><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a
href="https://huggingface.co/hyper3labs/hyper3-clip-v0.5/blob/main/LICENSE"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Hyper3labs has published its hyper3-clip-v0.5</a> under OpenMDW-1.0. </span></li>
<li><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IBM <span
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style="border-style:none;background:none">and</span> Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation published <a
href="https://huggingface.co/rosielickorish/ibm-geospatial-saltmarsh-uk-rgbdem-extent-2m"
moz-do-not-send="true">SaltMarsh</a> models under OpenMDW-1.0.</span></li>
<li><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are also aware of other projects that will use OpenMDW-1.1 in the future.</span></li>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OpenMDW-1.1 is not yet on the SPDX License List. The predecessor version is listed under the SPDX license identifier </span><a
href="https://spdx.org/licenses/OpenMDW-1.0.html"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OpenMDW-1.0</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. We expect to submit OpenMDW-1.1 for consideration in parallel with this submission to OSI. Pending listing, OpenMDW-1.1 can currently be referenced using the SPDX expression LicenseRef-OpenMDW-1.1. </span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Both Steve Winslow (CC\u2019d, the primary editor and coordinator for the drafting community) and I are subscribed to the license-review list and will respond to questions during the review.</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Regards,</span></p>
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<div dir="ltr">OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1
(OpenMDW-1.1)<br>
<br>
By exercising rights granted to you under this agreement,
you accept and agree<br>
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