Modilify Open Model License 1.0
Draft for Independent Legal Review

Copyright 2026 Modilify

1. Definitions

"Model" means the weights, configuration, inference code, tokenizer, processor,
and documentation distributed with this license. "Derivative Model" means a
modified, fine-tuned, distilled, merged, quantized, or otherwise adapted version
of the Model. "You" means the individual or legal entity exercising permissions
under this license. "High-Risk Use" means a use that can materially affect a
person's safety, liberty, access to essential services, employment, housing,
credit, education, legal rights, or medical care, or that controls critical
infrastructure, weapons, or large-scale biometric surveillance.

2. Copyright Grant

Subject to this license, Modilify grants You a worldwide, perpetual,
non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to use, reproduce,
prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense,
host as a service, and distribute the Model and Derivative Models, including for
commercial purposes.

3. Patent Grant

Each contributor grants You a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free,
irrevocable patent license, except as stated in this section, to make, have made,
use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Model where the
license applies only to patent claims necessarily infringed by that contributor's
contribution alone or in combination with the Model. If You institute patent
litigation alleging that the Model or a contribution constitutes patent
infringement, patent licenses granted to You under this license terminate as of
the filing date.

4. Conditions on Redistribution

If You distribute the Model or a Derivative Model, You must:

a. provide recipients a copy of this license;
b. retain copyright, patent, attribution, and NOTICE statements;
c. state clearly that You modified the Model and identify material modifications;
d. preserve applicable third-party license and attribution notices; and
e. publish with the distributed model a reasonably accessible impact statement
   describing intended uses, material limitations, evaluation scope, known
   safety risks, and risk mitigations for the Derivative Model.

The impact statement may be maintained in a public model card or equivalent
document. You are not required to submit it separately to Modilify.

5. Responsible Use and High-Risk Uses

You must not use the Model or a Derivative Model:

a. to develop, operate, or materially facilitate weapons, autonomous targeting,
   or systems intended to cause physical harm;
b. for unlawful mass surveillance, biometric identification without lawful
   authority and appropriate safeguards, or social scoring that determines
   access to rights or essential services;
c. to exploit children or vulnerable persons, facilitate human trafficking, or
   generate non-consensual intimate content;
d. to impersonate a person or deceptively represent machine output as an
   authentic human communication where the deception is reasonably likely to
   cause material harm; or
e. to make a final decision in a High-Risk Use without meaningful qualified
   human review, proportionate testing, monitoring, appeal or correction paths,
   and compliance with applicable law.

Before deploying the Model in a High-Risk Use, You must perform safety and impact
due diligence proportionate to foreseeable harm. At minimum, document the use
context, evaluate relevant failure modes and affected groups, apply reasonable
technical and organizational safeguards, monitor material incidents, and update
or suspend the deployment when its residual risk is not reasonable. Research,
testing, auditing, and defensive safety work are permitted when conducted with
appropriate safeguards.

6. Trademarks

This license does not grant permission to use the trade names, trademarks,
service marks, or product names of Modilify or any contributor, except as needed
for reasonable and customary attribution or to describe the origin of the Model.

7. Third-Party Components

The Model includes or derives from third-party components identified in
NOTICE.md. Those components remain subject to their applicable
licenses and terms. In particular, rights and obligations associated with the
Google DiffusionGemma base are not removed, narrowed, or replaced by this
license. You are responsible for complying with all applicable upstream terms.

8. Termination and Reinstatement

Your rights terminate automatically if You materially violate this license and
do not cure the violation within 30 days after becoming aware of it. Rights are
reinstated upon timely cure unless a rights holder provides written notice of a
substantially similar repeated violation. Sections intended by their nature to
survive termination remain effective.

9. Disclaimer of Warranty

THE MODEL IS PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT,
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, OR SAFETY. YOU ARE
SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE APPROPRIATENESS OF USING OR REDISTRIBUTING
THE MODEL AND ASSUME ALL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR EXERCISE OF PERMISSIONS.

10. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NO COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTOR SHALL
BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM THIS LICENSE OR THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE
THE MODEL, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

11. Governing Law and Venue

This license is governed by the laws of the State of California, excluding its
conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute arising from this license must be brought in
the state or federal courts located in Santa Clara County, California, and each
party consents to their personal jurisdiction and venue.

12. Entire License; Severability

This document states the complete Modilify license for the Model, subject to
applicable third-party terms. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited
to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions remain effective.

This is a pre-release license draft. Obtain independent legal review before
public distribution or production reliance.