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+xProvence, Copyright (C) 2024, 2025 Naver Corporation
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+xProvence software is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license].
+
+The datasets set forth in PART 2 below and model training utilities set forth in PART 3 below, which are not being distributed herewith, were used to train the xProvence model(s) and/or checkpoint(s) distributed herewith, which model(s) and/or checkpoint(s) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 license [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license], provided you agree, notwithstanding any applicable law to the contrary, that: (A) "Adapted Material" as used in the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license includes (but is not limited to) (i) any models trained on or refined using the xProvence models and/or checkpoints, or the weights or biases from such trained models, in whole or in part, and (ii) any output produced using the xProvence models and/or checkpoints or any materials adapted under (i), and (B) "commercial advantage" as used in the license includes (but is not limited to) any use of the xProvence models and/or checkpoints (i) in other than in a virtual test environment (e.g., in any system, network, or infrastructure, forming part of an apparatus or service, even if no monetary compensation is received for such apparatus or service, and even if not operated by a human) and (ii) for any purpose that is excluded by any license set forth in PART 2 or PART 3 below.
+
+A summary of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license is located here:
+	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
+
+The CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license is located here:
+	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode
+
+*****************************************************************************************************************
+SEE NOTICES BELOW CONCERNING SOFTWARE FILES (PART 1) AND DATASETS (PART 2) AND MODEL TRAINING UTILITIES (PART 3):
+*****************************************************************************************************************
+
+---------------------------------------------------------
+PART 1: SEE NOTICES BELOW WITH RESPECT TO SOFTWARE FILES:
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+None.
+
+---------------------------------------------------
+PART 2: SEE NOTICES BELOW WITH RESPECT TO DATASETS:
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+A. The following datasets, which are not being distributed herewith, were used to train the model(s) and/or checkpoint(s) distributed with the software (under the terms provided therewith):
+
+(A.1) MS MARCO: see https://microsoft.github.io/msmarco/
+made available under the following terms: https://microsoft.github.io/msmarco/
+
+(A.2) MIRACL (Topics and Qrels): see https://huggingface.co/datasets/miracl/miracl
+made available under the following license: Apache License Version 2.0
+https://huggingface.co/datasets/choosealicense/licenses/blob/main/markdown/apache-2.0.md 
+
+(A.3) MIRACL Corpus: see https://huggingface.co/datasets/miracl/miracl-corpus
+made available under the following license: Apache License Version 2.0
+https://huggingface.co/datasets/choosealicense/licenses/blob/main/markdown/apache-2.0.md 
+
+B. One or more of the datasets in Part 2.A were labeled using Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct available here:
+https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
+under the following conditions:
+https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B/blob/main/LICENSE
+
+C. One or more of the datasets in Part 2.A were labeled using Aya Expanse 8B available here:
+https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/aya-expanse-8b
+under the following conditions (CC-BY-NC-4.0):
+https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-4.0
+
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+PART 3: SEE NOTICES BELOW WITH RESPECT TO MODEL TRAINING UTILITIES:
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+A. bge-reranker-v2-m3, which was used to train the model(s) and/or checkpoint(s) distributed with the software, is available here:
+https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
+under the following conditions (Apache License Version 2.0):
+https://huggingface.co/datasets/choosealicense/licenses/blob/main/markdown/apache-2.0.md