N-ATLAS Kit
Copyright 2025 OneDev Studioo and the N-ATLAS Kit contributors

This product includes software developed by the N-ATLAS Kit contributors
(https://github.com/Kambah123/N-ATLAS-Kit).

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the LICENSE file.


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THIRD-PARTY MODELS - IMPORTANT: NOT COVERED BY THIS REPOSITORY'S LICENSE
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N-ATLAS Kit is a *client toolkit*. It contains no model weights and is not a
derivative work of any N-ATLaS model. The Apache-2.0 license in LICENSE applies
ONLY to the source code in this repository.

The models this toolkit talks to are published by Awarri Technologies and the
Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy (NCAIR /
NITDA) under their own "Open-Source Research and Innovation License"
(Terms of Use for N-ATLaS, Version 1.0, September 2025). That license is
NOT Apache-2.0 and NOT an OSI-approved open-source license.

Models covered:

  NCAIR1/N-ATLaS                   LLM   Llama-3 8B fine-tune (LlamaForCausalLM)
  NCAIR1/Hausa-ASR                 ASR   Whisper Small fine-tune (ha)
  NCAIR1/Igbo-ASR                  ASR   Whisper Small fine-tune (ig)
  NCAIR1/Yoruba-ASR                ASR   Whisper Small fine-tune (yo)
  NCAIR1/NigerianAccentedEnglish   ASR   Whisper Small fine-tune (en-NG)

Anyone who uses this toolkit to run or call those models is bound by the
model Terms of Use, which include (summarised - read the model cards for the
authoritative text):

  * Attribution is mandatory.
  * Derivative works of the MODELS must be released under the same model terms
    (share-alike). This does not reach our independently written client code.
  * A cap of 1,000 active end-users in any rolling 30-day period. Above that
    you need a commercial licence from Awarri Technologies.
  * Not for enterprise / commercial deployment without a separate agreement.
  * Prohibited: surveillance, discriminatory profiling, disinformation and
    impersonation, military or weaponised deployment.
  * Governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Required attribution, reproduced here and surfaced in the playground UI and
docs as the model terms require:

  "N-ATLaS is an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Communications,
   Innovation and Digital Economy, and powered by Awarri Technologies."

  "Awarri Technologies and the Federal Government of Nigeria, developers of
   N-ATLaS (Hausa-ASR / Igbo-ASR / Yoruba-ASR / NigerianAccentedEnglish)."

All five model repositories are gated on Hugging Face: you must accept the
terms with a Hugging Face account and supply an HF_TOKEN to download them.

Model weights must never be committed to this repository. See .gitignore.

Underlying base models carry their own terms as well:
  * Meta Llama 3 Community License (base of NCAIR1/N-ATLaS)
  * openai/whisper-small, MIT (base of the four ASR models)
