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The license is transferable and sublicensable, meaning OpenRouter can pass these rights to third parties, though only for the purpose of operating and providing the Service.
The updated terms clarify that enabling prompt logging automatically activates chat logging as well, and grant OpenRouter a perpetual, worldwide license to use your content for service provision and commercial purposes. This includes the explicit right to license or sell your user content in anonymized form. Users accessing Stealth Program models must now also agree to a separate End User License Agreement. You can disable prompt logging in your account settings if you do not wish to grant these permissions.
View change record →Readers grant OpenRouter the right to use, store, reproduce, and distribute their User Content — including through sublicensees — but only for the purpose of operating and providing the Service, and modifications are limited to formatting.
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You do not have any rights in relation to Member Content, and, unless expressly authorized by Tinder, you may only use Member Content to the extent that your use is consistent with our Services' purpose...
We hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license under the rights licensable by us to use the services and use Content from our services solely for your personal use...
...you grant to users of your model a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, store, and create derivative works from your LoRA and its output.
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"you hereby grant to OpenRouter a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, distribute and modify (for formatting purposes only), your User Content solely in connection with operating and providing the Service.— Excerpt from OpenRouter's OpenRouter Terms of Service
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The license is transferable and sublicensable, meaning OpenRouter can pass these rights to third parties, though only for the purpose of operating and providing the Service.
Readers grant OpenRouter the right to use, store, reproduce, and distribute their User Content — including through sublicensees — but only for the purpose of operating and providing the Service, and modifications are limited to formatting.
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