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+# Indic Open License Deed
+
+*A plain-language guide to the Indic Open Model License covering Bodhan AI's speech, OCR, translation, and transliteration models.*
+
+Broad, no-cost access for research, government, nonprofit, and commercial use — with a few conditions attached.
+
+> **This deed is a human-readable summary of the license, not a substitute for it.** Where the two disagree, the full **Indic Open Model License** governs.
+
+---
+
+## You're free to
+
+No cost, no royalty, worldwide — for research, government, nonprofit, and commercial use, at any scale.
+
+- ✅ **Run it** — for inference, in a product, in research, however you like.
+- ✅ **Change it** — fine-tune, distill, quantize, merge, or otherwise build on it.
+- ✅ **Self-host it** — power your own product or service with it, commercial or not.
+- ✅ **Share it** — pass on copies of the model or your own version of it.
+
+---
+
+## As long as you
+
+Five conditions cover almost everything. The rest of the license is these, spelled out in legal detail.
+
+### 1. Give credit
+
+Wherever you ship the model or a derivative to anyone else, say where it came from — and don't strip out existing notices.
+
+```
+"Built with [Model Name] from Bodhan AI / AI4Bharat."
+```
+
+### 2. Pass it on the same way
+
+If you give your fine-tuned or derived version to anyone else — hand it over, or run it as a service for them — it carries this exact license. You can't relicense it on different terms.
+
+### 3. Ask before hosting it for others
+
+Self-hosting is free. But if you're going to run it as an API or hosted service that *other people or companies* call directly, that needs Bodhan AI's written sign-off first — unless you're a nonprofit, government, or academic user, or you publicly release an equally capable open version within 90 days.
+
+### 4. Don't use it to cause harm
+
+No exceptions — not even for nonprofit or research use. That means no:
+
+- child sexual abuse material, or content that sexualizes minors
+- weapons development, including chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear
+- mass surveillance or social-scoring systems
+- disinformation campaigns, including election manipulation
+- automated decisions that affect someone's legal rights without human oversight
+- deepfakes or voice clones of real people without their consent
+- robocalls, auto-dialers, or voice-phishing scams
+- AI companion products designed to simulate romance or foster emotional dependency
+
+### 5. Talk to us if your product gets huge
+
+If your own product built on this — not through hosting it for others, that's covered above — crosses either threshold, you'll need a separate commercial license. Doesn't apply to nonprofit, government, or academic users.
+
+| Threshold | |
+|---|---|
+| **500M+** | monthly active users |
+| | *or* |
+| **$250M+** | annual revenue |
+
+---
+
+## Good to know
+
+- **No warranty.** The model is provided as-is. It isn't tested or certified for safety-critical use — medical, aviation, nuclear, or similar — so test thoroughly before relying on it in high-stakes settings.
+- **You handle your own compliance.** Export controls, sanctions, and data-protection law (including India's DPDP Act, where it applies) are on you, not Bodhan AI.
+- **This deed doesn't replace the license.** It leaves out most of the legal detail — termination, dispute resolution, confidentiality, and more all live in the full text. Read that before you rely on anything here.
+
+---
+
+Indic Open Model License — Bodhan AI / AI4Bharat, IIT Madras · Full license at [bodhan.ai](http://bodhan.ai)