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Licensing

The CUNY AI Lab shares its teaching materials, writing, and software so that others can learn from them, reuse them, and build on them. This page explains which license covers what.

Website content and teaching materials

Except where otherwise noted, the text, images, and other content on this website, along with CAIL’s workshop slides, handouts, guides, and documentation, are © CUNY AI Lab, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

You may copy, share, and adapt this material for non-commercial purposes if you:

  • credit the CUNY AI Lab;
  • link to the license; and
  • say whether you made changes.

Suggested attribution: “Title of the material” by the CUNY AI Lab, CUNY Graduate Center, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Teaching, research, and study at universities, schools, libraries, and nonprofits count as non-commercial use. Contact us before using CAIL material in anything that is sold or used mainly for commercial advantage.

Software

CAIL’s software is free and open source. Its code is published at github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab, and the LICENSE file in each repository governs that repository.

  • Web applications and services, including this website’s code, use the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0).
  • Software that people install on their own devices, such as plugins, uses the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later (GPL-3.0).
  • Some packages that other software builds on, and components that come from other projects, keep the license stated in their repository, such as MIT or MPL-2.0.

The AGPL and GPL permit any use, including commercial use. Anyone who distributes a modified version must share its complete source code under the same license, and under the AGPL that also applies to anyone who runs a modified version as a network service.

What these licenses do not cover

  • Third-party material, including images, screenshots, quotations, readings, embedded media, and software developed by others, remains subject to its owners’ terms.
  • Photographs of people, and the names, logos, and branding of CUNY, the CUNY Graduate Center, the CUNY AI Lab, and partner organizations, may not be used without permission, including to suggest endorsement. Crediting the CUNY AI Lab as the source of licensed material is welcome.
  • CAIL claims no ownership of material that people submit to CAIL services or of the output they generate with them.

Where a page, post, file, or repository carries its own license notice, that notice governs.

Earlier versions

These licenses apply to all CAIL material, including earlier versions. Anyone who obtained material that CAIL previously released under a different license, such as the MIT License or a Creative Commons ShareAlike license, may continue to use that copy under the earlier license.

Questions

For commercial use, other permissions, or questions about licensing, contact ailab@gc.cuny.edu.