TII Falcon LLM License Version 1.0
May 2023
falconllm.tii.ae
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
This license is, in part, based on the Apache License Version 2.0 (available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/), with a series of modifications. The contribution of the Apache License 2.0 to the framing of this document is acknowledged. Please read this license carefully, as it is different to other ‘open source’ licenses you may have encountered previously. In particular, note that this license contains obligations on those of you who are commercially exploiting Falcon LLM or any Derivative Work to make royalty payments.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION
1 Definitions.
"Commercial Application Address” means Falconllm.sales@tii.ae.
“Commercial Use” means use where there is, or, in relation to a new use case, a reasonable expectation that there will be revenue directly attributable to the use of the Work for that use case.
“Commercial User” means someone who has applied to make Commercial Use of the Work and been granted permission by the Licensor to make such Commercial Use in accordance with Section 8.
“Contribution” shall mean any work of authorship, including the original version of the Work and any modifications or additions to that Work or Derivative Works thereof, that is intentionally submitted to Licensor for inclusion in the Work by the copyright owner or by an individual or Legal Entity authorized to submit on behalf of the copyright owner. For the purposes of this definition, “submitted” means any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to the Licensor or its representatives, including but not limited to communication on electronic mailing lists, source code control systems, and issue tracking systems that are managed by, or on behalf of, the Licensor for the purpose of discussing and improving the Work, but excluding communication that is conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing by the copyright owner as “Not a Contribution.”
“Contributor” shall mean Licensor and any individual or Legal Entity on behalf of whom a Contribution has been received by Licensor and subsequently incorporated within the Work.
“Derivative Works” shall mean any work, whether in Source or Object form, that is based on (or derived from) the Work and for which the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an original work of authorship. For the purposes of this License, Derivative Works shall include machine learning models trained using outputs from the Falcon LLM or any other Derivative Work, but shall not otherwise include works that remain separable from, or merely link (or bind by name) to the interfaces of, the Work and Derivative Works thereof.
“Falcon LLM” shall mean only the following releases of TII’s Falcon large language models: (i) Falcon-RW-1B; (ii) Falcon-RW-7B; (iii) Falcon-7B; (iv) Falcon-40B; (v) Falcon-7B-Instruct; or (vi) Falcon-40B-Instruct; each of which is initially made available in Object form only under this license at FalconLLM.tii.ae. No other sizes or versions of the ‘Falcon’ family of large language models is made available under this license.
“Legal Entity” shall mean the union of the acting entity and all other entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with that entity. For the purposes of this definition, “control” means (i) the power, direct or indirect, to cause the direction or management of such entity, whether by contract or otherwise, or (ii) ownership of fifty percent (50%) or more of the outstanding shares, or (iii) beneficial ownership of such entity.
“License” shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and distribution as defined by Sections 1 to 11 of this document.
“Licensor” shall mean the copyright owner or entity authorized by the copyright owner that is granting the License.
“Object” form shall mean any form resulting from mechanical transformation or translation of a Source form, including but not limited to compiled object code, a trained and/or fine-tuned machine learning model or artificial intelligence model, generated documentation, and conversions to other media types.
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