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+## ACADEMIC PUBLIC LICENSE
+
+### Permissions
+:heavy_check_mark: Non-Commercial use
+:heavy_check_mark: Modification
+:heavy_check_mark: Distribution
+:heavy_check_mark: Private use
+
+### Limitations
+:x: Commercial Use
+:x: Liability
+:x: Warranty
+
+### Conditions
+:information_source: License and copyright notice
+:information_source: Same License
+
+PromptIR is free for use in noncommercial settings: at academic institutions for teaching and research use, and at non-profit research organizations.
+You can use PromptIR in your research, academic work, non-commercial work, projects and personal work. We only ask you to credit us appropriately. 
+
+You have the right to use the software, to distribute copies, to receive source code, to change the software and distribute your modifications or the modified software.
+If you distribute verbatim or modified copies of this software, they must be distributed under this license.
+This license guarantees that you're safe when using PromptIR in your work, for teaching or research.
+This license guarantees that PromptIR will remain available free of charge for nonprofit use.
+You can modify PromptIR to your purposes, and you can also share your modifications.
+
+If you would like to use PromptIR in commercial settings, contact us so we can discuss options. Send an email to vaishnav.potlapalli@mbzuai.ac.ae
+