FoodEval License: CC-BY-NC-4.0 with Evaluation-Only Addendum and
Additional Permissions

Copyright (c) 2026 Latimal

Latimal offers this dataset and the accompanying evaluation code under
CC-BY-NC-4.0 as supplemented by the addendum and additional permissions
below.

Under CC-BY-NC-4.0 you are free to Share and Adapt the material, with
Attribution and NonCommercial conditions. The addendum below narrows those
freedoms for this dataset: evaluation-only use, no training, unmodified
redistribution. Where this summary, the CC deed, and the addendum differ,
the addendum controls; the additional permissions below are granted by the
licensor on top of all of the above and control to their full extent.

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EVALUATION-ONLY ADDENDUM

This dataset is licensed for evaluation, benchmarking, and academic research
only. Use as training data for machine learning models is expressly prohibited:
no training, fine-tuning, distillation, or baking examples into a model.
Redistribution is permitted only on these same terms (unmodified, attributed,
non-commercial, evaluation-only); selling the data is prohibited as a
commercial use.

ADDITIONAL PERMISSIONS GRANTED BY THE LICENSOR

On top of CC-BY-NC-4.0, Latimal, as licensor, grants:

1. Running FoodEval to evaluate and compare models is permitted in any
   setting, including inside a company and in commercial model-selection
   decisions. The NonCommercial clause is not intended to prevent anyone
   from measuring models with this benchmark.
2. The evaluation code and tooling (everything outside the dataset task
   files, which live at foodeval/data/ in the package and data/ on the
   Hugging Face dataset repo) may be used commercially.