ISALGO LAB Academic and Non-Commercial Research License
Version 1.0

Copyright (c) 2026 ISALGO LAB. All rights reserved.

0. DEFINITIONS

   "Software" means the software, source code, scripts, models, trained
   parameters, and associated documentation files distributed under this
   license, together with any Modification thereof.

   "Modification" means any change to, adaptation of, translation of, or work
   derived from the Software, in whole or in part.

   "Output" means any data produced by running the Software, including
   predictions, scores, embeddings, annotations, labels, rankings, alignments,
   simulated or synthetic data, and any file derived from them.

   "Model" means any machine-learning or statistical system whose parameters
   are fitted from data, including neural networks, gradient-boosted trees,
   regression models, and any set of trained parameters, whether or not
   distributed together with code.

   "You" means the individual or legal entity exercising the rights granted
   below.

   "Non-Commercial Use" means use for academic, educational, or scientific
   research purposes from which no commercial advantage or monetary
   compensation is sought or obtained, whether directly or indirectly.

   "Commercial Use" means any use that is not Non-Commercial Use, including
   without limitation: (a) use in or to develop a product, service, or
   pipeline that is sold, licensed, rented, or otherwise monetized;
   (b) use by a for-profit entity in connection with its business operations,
   including internal evaluation, benchmarking, or research and development;
   (c) use to provide services to third parties for a fee, including
   consulting, contract research, or hosted or cloud-based provision of the
   Software's functionality; (d) use in research performed under contract for,
   or funded directly by, a for-profit entity for that entity's proprietary
   benefit; and (e) any use described in Section 3.

1. GRANT OF RIGHTS

   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
   copy of the Software, to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, and distribute
   the Software for Non-Commercial Use only, subject to all conditions below.
   No rights are granted other than those expressly stated here; all rights
   not expressly granted are reserved by the copyright holder.

2. PROHIBITED USE

   Commercial Use of the Software is prohibited without a separate written
   license signed by the copyright holder.

3. MACHINE-LEARNING AND MODEL TRAINING

   3.1 The following are permitted under this license only when the resulting
       Model and its Outputs are themselves put to Non-Commercial Use:

       (a) training, fine-tuning, pre-training, continued training, or
           retraining any Model on the Software, on its source code, or on
           its Output;
       (b) using the Output as training data, labels, targets, weak
           supervision, reward or preference signal, validation data, or test
           data for any Model;
       (c) using the Software or its Output to filter, clean, augment, score,
           rank, deduplicate, or otherwise curate a data set used to train
           any Model;
       (d) distilling, pruning, quantizing, compressing, or otherwise
           deriving a second Model from any Model distributed as part of the
           Software, or from that Model's Output;
       (e) using the Software or its Output to benchmark, evaluate, validate,
           tune hyperparameters of, or select among Models;
       (f) embedding the Software, or a Model trained in any of the ways
           above, in an automated or agent-driven pipeline.

   3.2 Each activity listed in Section 3.1 is Commercial Use, and therefore
       prohibited without a separate written license, whenever the resulting
       Model, its Outputs, its parameters, or any system containing it is:
       sold, licensed, rented, hosted, or otherwise monetized; used by or on
       behalf of a for-profit entity in connection with its business
       operations; used to provide services to third parties for a fee; or
       used to support an application for, prosecution of, or exploitation of
       a patent or other proprietary right held by a for-profit entity.

   3.3 A Model is subject to this Section regardless of how much of the
       Software or its Output contributed to that Model, and regardless of
       whether the Software or its Output can be recovered from the trained
       parameters. Intermediate steps do not remove a Model from the scope of
       this Section: a Model trained on a data set that was itself produced,
       curated, or filtered using the Software remains subject to it.

   3.4 Where a Model is trained partly on the Software or its Output and
       partly on other material, Section 3.2 applies to that Model in full.

   3.5 Publication of research results, including trained parameters released
       for Non-Commercial Use under terms no less restrictive than this
       license, is permitted and encouraged.

4. REDISTRIBUTION

   You may distribute the Software, with or without Modification, provided
   that You:

   (a) retain this license in full, including the copyright notice of
       Section 0 and the disclaimer of Section 9, in all copies and in all
       Modifications;
   (b) do not sublicense the Software or impose any additional or different
       terms, so that every recipient receives exactly the rights and
       restrictions granted here and no more;
   (c) mark each Modification with a prominent notice stating that the file
       has been changed, by whom, and on what date;
   (d) charge no fee for the Software itself, beyond the actual cost of
       physical media or transmission.

5. ATTRIBUTION

   Any publication, presentation, preprint, poster, or derived work that makes
   use of the Software must cite this repository, or the corresponding
   publication where one is specified in the repository. Any released Model
   covered by Section 3 must state in its accompanying documentation that the
   Software was used in its construction.

6. NO TRADEMARK OR PATENT RIGHTS

   This license grants no right to use the names, trademarks, or logos of
   ISALGO LAB, the copyright holder, or any contributor, whether to endorse or
   promote any work or otherwise, without prior written permission. This
   license grants no patent rights, express or implied, under any patent owned
   or controlled by the copyright holder.

7. TERM AND TERMINATION

   The rights granted here apply for as long as You comply with this license
   and terminate automatically, without notice, upon any breach. Rights may be
   reinstated in writing by the copyright holder. Sections 2, 3, 6, 8, and 9
   survive termination. Upon termination You must cease all use of the
   Software and destroy all copies in Your possession, except copies retained
   solely for archival purposes required by law or institutional policy.

8. COMMERCIAL AND TRIAL LICENSING

   Parties seeking Commercial Use, use of the Software or its Output in
   training a Model for Commercial Use, an evaluation or trial license, or any
   rights beyond those granted here should contact ISALGO LAB. Such licenses are
   granted only in writing.

9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

   THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
   IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
   FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
   THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
   LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
   FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
   DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

   The Software is a research tool. It is not validated for clinical,
   diagnostic, therapeutic, or any other use on which health, safety, or
   financial decisions depend.

10. SEVERABILITY

   If any provision of this license is held unenforceable, that provision
   shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable,
   and the remaining provisions shall remain in full effect.