META LLAMA 3 COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT
Meta Llama 3 Version Release Date: April 18, 2024
“Agreement” means the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, distribution and modification of the
Llama Materials set forth herein.
“Documentation” means the specifications, manuals and documentation accompanying Meta Llama 3
distributed by Meta at https://llama.meta.com/get-started/.
“Licensee” or “you” means you, or your employer or any other person or entity (if you are entering into
this Agreement on such person or entity’s behalf), of the age required under applicable laws, rules or
regulations to provide legal consent and that has legal authority to bind your employer or such other
person or entity if you are entering in this Agreement on their behalf.
“Meta Llama 3” means the foundational large language models and software and algorithms, including
machine-learning model code, trained model weights, inference-enabling code, training-enabling code,
fine-tuning enabling code and other elements of the foregoing distributed by Meta at
https://llama.meta.com/llama-downloads.
“Llama Materials” means, collectively, Meta’s proprietary Meta Llama 3 and Documentation (and any
portion thereof) made available under this Agreement.
“Meta” or “we” means Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (if you are located in or, if you are an entity, your
principal place of business is in the EEA or Switzerland) and Meta Platforms, Inc. (if you are located
outside of the EEA or Switzerland).
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1. License Rights and Redistribution.
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limited license under Meta’s intellectual property or other rights owned by Meta embodied in the Llama
Materials to use, reproduce, distribute, copy, create derivative works of, and make modifications to the
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i. If you distribute or make available the Llama Materials (or any derivative works
thereof), or a product or service that uses any of them, including another AI model, you shall (A) provide
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use the Llama Materials to create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model, which is
distributed or made available, you shall also include “Llama 3” at the beginning of any such AI model
name.
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of an integrated end user product, then Section 2 of this Agreement will not apply to you.
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reference into this Agreement.
v. You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to
improve any other large language model (excluding Meta Llama 3 or derivative works thereof).
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of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700
million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta,
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of the Mark will inure to the benefit of Meta.
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respect to any derivative works and modifications of the Llama Materials that are made by you, as
between you and Meta, you are and will be the owner of such derivative works and modifications.
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distribution of the Llama Materials.
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accordance with the terms and conditions herein. Meta may terminate this Agreement if you are in
breach of any term or condition of this Agreement. Upon termination of this Agreement, you shall delete
and cease use of the Llama Materials. Sections 3, 4 and 7 shall survive the termination of this
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