How the record is kept

What gets included

Documents that decide how AI model weights are released and used: who may publish them, under what license, and what rules apply to them. Every entry has one category:

• Export controls: export rules, Federal Register notices and changes in how they are enforced.
• Laws and bills: laws, signed or vetoed bills and binding rules, in any country.
• Reports and plans: government reports, plans, codes of practice and official guidance.
• Releases and licenses: model releases and license changes, including models kept closed and moves between licenses.
• Definitions and standards: definitions and standards, such as the Open Source Initiative’s. They are recorded as entries, not adopted as Maple’s own definitions.
• Safety findings: official evaluations and risk findings about released weights.

The record includes entries that argue against wide release in the same format as the rest.

Primary sources only

Each entry links to one primary source: the Federal Register or the EU’s Official Journal, a government or legislature page, a license file, a code repository, a standards body or the company’s own post. News reports can point us to a document, but they are never the cited source. Nothing is entered from a search extract: the source itself is opened and checked before an entry publishes.

The document’s own words

Under “On open weights,” each entry quotes the source’s exact words about open weights. Labels stay as the document writes them: “open-weight,” “open source” or “Apache 2.0.” Quotes keep the source’s spelling and language, so EU text says “licences” and a Chinese rule is quoted in Chinese. Maple’s own wording around them is one factual sentence, with no adjectives, no ranking and no judgment.

A license entry also records the license name, its words on commercial use, the previous license and whether the weights are downloadable. “Downloadable” is a fact about publication, not about the license’s terms.

What “Silent” means

“Silent” means the cited document contains no statement about open weights. It does not mean Maple found nothing elsewhere, and it is not a verdict on the document.

How entries are dated

The date is the one the source gives: a rule’s publication date, the day a bill was signed or vetoed, or the day a model or license was released. The day Maple added an entry is never used. Each entry also records the day it was last checked against its source.

Corrections

If an entry is wrong or its source has changed, email [email protected] with a link to the entry. The entry is corrected in place, keeps its permanent link and gets a new checked date. Its old wording stays visible in the entry’s details and in the list below.

No entry has been corrected since the record was published.

Reusing the data

The entries are licensed CC BY 4.0. Download them as data.json or data.csv, and credit them like this: Source: Maple, Open-weight AI policy (maple.ai/open-weights), data through 2026-10-20. Quoted text from laws, licenses and company documents keeps its owners’ terms.

Maple’s stake

Maple’s product depends on being able to run open-weight models, so rules about them affect it. That is why we keep this record, and why every entry quotes its source instead of describing it in our words.

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