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The license is irrevocable and royalty-free, meaning once a GPT is shared, OpenAI retains broad rights to it permanently without compensation to the creator.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated at '(i) to OpenAI to use, test, store, copy, translate, display, modify, distribute, promote, and otherwise make available...', suggesting additional sublicenses or grantees exist in the full clause that are not captured here.
The updated terms establish new licensing provisions for customers who download and install software components (Licensed Materials) on their own systems. Under the revised terms, OpenAI grants a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use Licensed Materials solely in connection with the Services, but customers may not modify, redistribute, or sublicense the materials. Upon termination of service, customers must permanently delete the Licensed Materials. Additionally, OpenAI introduced a new ChatGPT Sites feature for creating and publishing websites, with use governed by separate ChatGPT Sites Terms. You can review the ChatGPT Sites Terms via the referenced link to understand specific conditions for website creation and maintenance.
View change record →If you share your GPT, OpenAI acquires a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, distribute, and promote it, which cannot be revoked.
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"By sharing your GPT with others, you grant a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license: (i) to OpenAI to use, test, store, copy, translate, display, modify, distribute, promote, and otherwise make available...— Excerpt from OpenAI's OpenAI Service Terms
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The license is irrevocable and royalty-free, meaning once a GPT is shared, OpenAI retains broad rights to it permanently without compensation to the creator.
If you share your GPT, OpenAI acquires a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, distribute, and promote it, which cannot be revoked.
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