🚀 OS Launch: Clean documentation and refined licensing
Browse filesThis OS launch commit includes:
✅ **Cleaned Documentation**
- Removed inflated claims and marketing language
- Added honest research status and limitations
- Created professional model card and validation reports
- Streamlined licensing to AGPLv3 + commercial contact
✅ **Refined Codebase**
- Complete experimental bit-native transformer implementation
- 57 Python files with comprehensive research framework
- Safety telemetry and monitoring systems
- Distributed training and development tools
✅ **Professional Standards**
- Empirical validation of all claims
- Clear experimental vs production distinctions
- Rigorous research methodology requirements
- Community contribution framework
Ready for serious research evaluation and academic investigation.
LICENSE/CONTRIBUTOR_LICENSE_AGREEMENT.txt
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# Individual Contributor License Agreement (ICLA)
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# Individual Contributor License Agreement (ICLA)
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## Agreement
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By submitting a contribution to the BitTransformerLM repository, you agree to the following terms:
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### 1. License Grant
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You grant WCNEGENTROPY HOLDINGS LLC a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your contributions and such derivative works.
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### 2. Patent Grant
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You grant WCNEGENTROPY HOLDINGS LLC a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated below) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by you that are necessarily infringed by your contribution(s).
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### 3. Representations
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You represent that:
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- You are legally entitled to grant the above licenses
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- Each of your contributions is your original creation or you have sufficient rights to grant the license
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- Your contributions do not infringe upon the proprietary rights of third parties
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- Your contributions comply with the project's Code of Conduct
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### 4. Support and Warranties
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You are not expected to provide support for your contributions. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, you provide your contributions on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND.
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### 5. Submission
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This agreement applies to all contributions you submit to BitTransformerLM. A "contribution" means any work of authorship, including any modifications or additions to existing work, that you submit for inclusion in the project.
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*This CLA is based on industry-standard contributor agreements and ensures that the project can continue to be distributed under its chosen licenses.*
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