What licence questions should an agent development team resolve before starting?
Licence discussions should cover how generated artefacts move through training, evaluation, contractors and downstream distribution, with permitted uses confirmed for the intended project.
**Does obtaining a sample establish permission for every later use?**
A buyer should confirm the permitted uses rather than infer them from access. Reading a sample, incorporating it into training and redistributing it inside a product are different activities to describe in the licence discussion.
**Which development activities should be covered?**
Explain whether the team intends to fine-tune models, run internal evaluations, share tasks with contractors or let customers execute tasks through a hosted service. Ask how the proposed licence treats transformed records, derived task variants and retained evaluation traces.
**What about publication?**
Clarify whether task text, example records and evaluation outputs may appear in public reports or downloadable packages. A report that quotes complete tasks can distribute more of the underlying material than a report containing aggregate findings.
No particular permission should be assumed here. A useful first step is to provide a concise intended-use description, including who receives the artefacts and where copies persist, then obtain explicit confirmation of the applicable licence scope before broader use.
Describe the actual development and distribution paths so licence scope can be assessed against intended use.
- Audience:
- Agent developers
- Content type:
- FAQ
- Buyer question:
- Scope and getting started
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