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Responsible-AI licence (OpenRAIL)

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A licence that grants open, royalty-free access to an AI artefact while attaching prohibited uses that every redistribution and derivative must carry forward 1. The restrictions travel with the model, so a deployer's own terms of use must repeat them.

Developed in
ch. 15, Open-weight licences
Chapters
ch. 15, Deployment
Contrast with
Open-weight model
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

One chapter of the Body of Knowledge uses the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

  • Deployer

    Under the EU AI Act, whoever uses an AI system under its own authority, other than in a purely personal, non-professional activity.

Sources

  1. [1] "OpenRAIL: Towards open and responsible AI licensing frameworks" (use-based restrictions that redistributions and derivatives must carry). Hugging Face. 2022-08-31. https://huggingface.co/blog/open_rail (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Responsible-AI licence (OpenRAIL). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/responsible-ai-licence-openrail. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026responsibleailicenceopenrail,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Responsible-AI licence (OpenRAIL)}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/responsible-ai-licence-openrail}
}