{"id":3847,"date":"2026-04-08T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarin-lt.lt\/?page_id=3847"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:35:02","slug":"newgenltu-openrail-d-license","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clarin-lt.lt\/?page_id=3847","title":{"rendered":"NewGenLTU openRAIL-D License"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Version 1.0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Date: 1\/4\/2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Open RAIL-D license was specifically created by a team of researchers at Vytautas Magnus University for the publication of the projects\u2019 results \u2013 datasets \u2013 that had been developed in the course of the research and development projects funded by the New Generation Lithuania plan. The New Generation Lithuania plan is funded by the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). It was decided to establish this license in order to address certain limitations relating to the use of datasets and to ensure compliance with the EU AI Act, data protection requirements, and copyright law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This license strives for open and responsible downstream use of the model and\/or dataset(s) while ensuring that the works subject to copyright that are contained in the dataset will not be used to recreate the works but rather will be used for AI training and other technology development activities. Similarly, with the models, the license strives to ensure compliance with the EU data protection regulation thus prohibiting the recreation or extraction of personal data from the dataset requiring the model trained on the dataset to limit its ability to reproduce or extract personal data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This license governs the use of the dataset and\/or the model (and their derivatives).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Licensed Artifact(s):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dataset created under the New Generation Lithuania plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Section I: PREAMBLE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This NewGenLTU Open RAIL License is generally applicable to the Artifact(s) identified above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NOW THEREFORE<\/strong>, You and Licensor agree as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Definitions<\/strong><ol><li>\u201c<strong>Application<\/strong>\u201d refers to a sequence of instructions or statements written in machine code language, including object code, binary code or an intermediate language.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>\u201c<strong>Artifact<\/strong>\u201d refers to the <strong>Dataset<\/strong> identified above as the \u201cLicensed Artifact\u201d, including its structure, content, organization, formatting, annotations, documentation, and associated metadata.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>\u201d<strong>Contribution<\/strong>&#8221; means any work, including any modifications or additions to the Dataset, that is intentionally submitted to Licensor for inclusion or incorporation in the Dataset directly or indirectly by the rights owner.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>&#8220;<strong>Contributor<\/strong>&#8221; means Licensor or any other individual or legal entity owning a Contribution that is incorporated into the Artifact or its Derivative.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>\u201c<strong>Data<\/strong>\u201d means a collection of information, content, entries, metadata and\/or other material contained within the Dataset. <em>For clarity: the Data is licensed under this OpenRAIL-D license.<\/em><\/li><\/ol><ol><li>\u201c<strong>Derivative<\/strong>\u201d means a work derived from or based upon the Artifact, including modified, cleaned, filtered, annotated, explained, or reformatted versions.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>\u201c<strong>Distribution<\/strong>\u201d means any transmission, reproduction, publication or other sharing of the Artifact or Derivatives to a third party, including making available by electronic or other remote means &#8211; e.g. API-based or web access.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>\u201c<strong>Harm<\/strong>\u201d includes but is not limited to physical, mental, psychological, financial and reputational damage, pain, or loss.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>&#8220;<strong>License<\/strong>&#8221; means the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and Distribution as defined in this document.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>\u201c<strong>Licensor<\/strong>\u201d means the rights owner (by virtue of creation or documented transfer of ownership) or entity authorized by the rights owner (e.g., exclusive licensee) that is granting the rights in this License.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>\u201c<strong>Model<\/strong>\u201d means any machine-learning based assembly or assemblies (including checkpoints), consisting of learnt weights, parameters (including optimizer states), corresponding to the model architecture as embodied in the Source Code.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>\u201c<strong>Output<\/strong>\u201d means the results of operating a Model as embodied in informational content resulting therefrom.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>\u201c<strong>Source Code<\/strong>\u201d means any collection of text written using human-readable programming language, including the code and scripts used to define, run, load, benchmark or evaluate a Model or any component thereof, and\/or used to prepare data for training or evaluation, if any. 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