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LICENSE.md

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-# Dialogs Corpus — Responsible-Use License
+# Dialogs — OpenRAIL License
 
-**Version 1.1**
+This dataset ("the Dataset"), and any models or other works trained on or derived
+from it together with their outputs ("Derivatives"), are licensed under an **Open
+& Responsible AI License (OpenRAIL)**, following the BigScience / CreativeML
+OpenRAIL-M template (see https://www.licenses.ai/ and
+https://huggingface.co/blog/open_rail). By accessing or using the Dataset you
+accept these terms.
 
-The Dialogs corpus ("the Dataset") is released under the following terms. This is
-an OpenRAIL-style license: open and royalty-free, with binding behavioral-use
-restrictions. By downloading, accessing, or using the Dataset, you ("you" or the
-"Licensee") agree to these terms.
-
-## 0. Definitions
-
-- **Licensors:** Ilya Shigabeev and Ilya Latyshev, the authors and rights holders
-  of the Dataset.
-- **Voice Talent:** the individuals whose voices are recorded in the Dataset, who
-  have provided written informed consent to its open release and use (including
-  commercial use) for lawful purposes.
-- **Dataset:** the audio recordings, transcripts, and style/emotion annotations
-  comprising the Dialogs corpus, in whole or in part.
-- **Derivative:** any modification of the Dataset and any model, weights, or
-  system trained on or derived from the Dataset, together with its outputs. The
-  parties agree, as a matter of contract, that such models and outputs are
-  Derivatives subject to Section 2 regardless of how the question is treated
-  under copyright law.
+**Licensor:** Ilya Shigabeev and Ilya Latyshev (Langswap).
 
 ## 1. Grant of rights
 
-Subject to the restrictions in Section 2, the Licensors grant you a worldwide,
-royalty-free, non-exclusive license to:
-
-- access and download the Dataset free of charge;
-- use it for any purpose, **including commercial purposes**;
-- reproduce, modify, and create Derivatives (including TTS and other models);
-- distribute and redistribute the Dataset and Derivatives.
-
-This grant is perpetual and irrevocable for any use that complies with Section 2.
-
-**Ownership of your work.** The Licensors claim no ownership of, and assert no
-rights over, the models you train or the outputs you generate using the Dataset,
-provided your use complies with Section 2. As between the parties, those models
-and outputs are yours.
-
-## 2. Use restrictions
-
-You may **not** use the Dataset or any Derivative to:
-
-1. violate any applicable law or regulation, including the Criminal Code of the
-   Russian Federation (УК РФ);
-2. impersonate any real person other than the Voice Talent (who have consented to
-   such use), or create a voice attributable to any other real individual,
-   without that person's explicit consent;
-3. generate sexual, pornographic, or intimate content using the voices in the
-   Dataset;
-4. carry out fraud, scams, deceptive automated calls, disinformation, or
-   harassment;
-5. defame, threaten, or harm any individual or group.
-
-These restrictions apply to you and, by operation of Section 4, to anyone to whom
-you distribute the Dataset or a Derivative.
-
-## 3. Attribution
-
-You must give appropriate credit, indicate if changes were made, and cite the
-Dataset's accompanying publication:
-
-> I. Shigabeev and I. Latyshev, "Dialogs: a studio-quality expressive
-> conversational Russian speech corpus for dialog assistants," in *Proc.
-> Interspeech*, 2026.
-
-A correct BibTeX entry is provided with the Dataset.
-
-## 4. Distribution and flow-down
-
-If you distribute the Dataset, any part of it, or a Derivative (including a
-trained model), you must (a) include a copy of this license, and (b) impose the
-Use Restrictions in Section 2 on every recipient. You may not offer or impose
-terms that remove or weaken those restrictions.
-
-## 5. Commercial use and contact
-
-Commercial use is permitted free of charge. Contacting the Licensors is **not**
-required and is **not** a condition of use.
-
-That said, if you build something commercial with the Dataset, we'd genuinely
-like to hear about it. The Licensors also welcome inquiries regarding
-**commercial licensing, warranty/indemnity, and custom or exclusive
-expressive-speech data collection** at **shigabeevilya@gmail.com**.
-
-## 6. Privacy and data protection
-
-The Dataset contains recordings of human voices, which may constitute personal
-and/or biometric data under applicable law (including Russian Federal Law
-No. 152-FZ "On Personal Data" and, where applicable, the EU GDPR and comparable
-regimes). The Licensors' release of the Dataset rests on the documented written
-informed consent of the Voice Talent. You are independently responsible for
-ensuring that your processing of the Dataset and any Derivative complies with all
-applicable data-protection and biometric-privacy laws in your jurisdiction.
-
-## 7. Termination
-
-Any use in breach of Section 2 automatically terminates your rights under this
-license, without notice. Breaches of other sections do not automatically
-terminate your rights but may be enforced as breaches of contract. Sections 2, 4,
-6, 8, and 9 survive termination.
-
-## 8. No warranty; release; third-party beneficiaries
+Subject to the use restrictions in Section 2, the Licensor grants you a
+perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license to access,
+use, reproduce, modify, publicly perform, distribute, and redistribute the
+Dataset and Derivatives, for any purpose, **including commercial purposes**.
 
-The Dataset is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or
-implied, including warranties of accuracy, non-infringement, merchantability, or
-fitness for a particular purpose.
+The Licensor claims no rights over Derivatives you create or outputs you generate,
+provided your use complies with Section 2.
 
-To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Licensors and the Voice Talent shall
-not be liable for any claim, damage, or liability arising from your use of the
-Dataset or any Derivative. You agree not to bring any claim against the Voice
-Talent arising from lawful use of the Dataset, and you agree to indemnify and
-hold harmless the Licensors and the Voice Talent against any claim arising from
-your breach of this license or your use of the Dataset.
+## 2. Use Restrictions (Attachment A)
 
-The **Voice Talent are intended third-party beneficiaries** of this license and
-may enforce Section 2 and this Section 8 directly against you.
+You agree not to use the Dataset or Derivatives:
 
-Nothing in this license waives the inalienable moral rights of performers under
-applicable law.
+1. In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation;
+2. For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way;
+3. To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others;
+4. To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to harm an individual;
+5. To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;
+6. For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual's legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation;
+7. For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics;
+8. To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;
+9. For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories;
+10. To provide medical advice and medical results interpretation;
+11. To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling, drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and arbitrarily-targeted use).
 
-## 9. Governing law and dispute resolution
+## 3. Distribution and flow-down
 
-This license is governed by the laws of the Russian Federation, without regard to
-its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to this
-license shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the competent courts of the
-Russian Federation.
+If you distribute the Dataset or any Derivative, you must (a) provide a copy of
+this license, including Section 2, to all recipients, and (b) require recipients
+to comply with Section 2. You may add your own terms for your Derivatives provided
+they do not conflict with or weaken these Use Restrictions.
 
-## 10. General
+## 4. Disclaimer of warranty and liability
 
-- **Severability.** If any provision of this license is held unenforceable in any
-  jurisdiction, the remaining provisions remain in full force, and the Use
-  Restrictions in Section 2 shall be enforced to the maximum extent permitted.
-- **No waiver.** Failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.
-- **Entire agreement.** This license is the entire agreement between you and the
-  Licensors concerning the Dataset and supersedes any prior understanding.
-- **Versioning.** The Licensors may publish revised versions of this license;
-  material you obtained under a given version remains governed by that version.
+The Dataset is provided "AS IS", without warranties of any kind, express or
+implied. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Licensor is not liable for
+any claim, damages, or liability arising from use of the Dataset or Derivatives.
 
 ---
 
-*This license is adapted from the OpenRAIL framework (https://www.licenses.ai /
-BigScience OpenRAIL-M). For Hugging Face, set the dataset card `license:` field to
-`openrail`, `license_name:` to `dialogs-responsible-use-1.1`, and `license_link:`
-to `LICENSE.md`.*
+*This is an OpenRAIL license (the BigScience/CreativeML OpenRAIL-M template, with
+its standard Attachment A use restrictions, applied to a dataset). On Hugging Face
+this dataset is tagged `license: openrail`. The Dataset's voice actors gave written
+informed consent for open release and lawful use, including commercial use.*

README.md

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 ---
 pretty_name: "Dialogs: Expressive Conversational Russian Speech Corpus"
 license: openrail
-license_name: dialogs-responsible-use-1.1
 license_link: LICENSE.md
 language:
 - ru
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 ## License
 
-We want Dialogs to be **as open as we can make it** — free to download, use,
-modify, redistribute, and build on, **including for commercial products**. No
-fees, no gatekeeping.
+Dialogs is released under **OpenRAIL** — an open, royalty-free Responsible-AI
+license. You're free to **download, use, modify, redistribute, and use it
+commercially**, subject only to the standard OpenRAIL use restrictions (no
+unlawful use, no harming minors, no harmful disinformation, no harassment or
+defamation, etc.). Full terms: [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md). The voice actors gave
+written informed consent for open release and lawful use, including commercial.
 
-There's just one thing we ask, and it matters to us. The voices in this dataset
-belong to real people — professional actors who trusted us with them and gave
-their informed consent for open, including commercial, use. In return we promised
-them their voices wouldn't be turned against anyone. So please **don't** use this
-data, or anything trained on it, to:
+If Dialogs is useful to you, please **cite the paper** (below).
 
-- do anything unlawful;
-- impersonate a real person without their consent;
-- create sexual or pornographic content from these voices;
-- run fraud, scams, or deceptive automated calls;
-- harass, defame, or harm anyone.
+## Commercial use, services & support
 
-Everything else is fair game — research, products, fine-tuning, commercial
-deployment, all welcome. If Dialogs is useful to you, please **cite the paper**.
+Commercial use is **free** under OpenRAIL — you don't need our permission, and we
+hope you build great things with it.
 
-**Commercial users:** the data is free, no permission needed. If you'd like a
-commercial license with warranty/indemnity for your legal team, or you need
-**custom / exclusive expressive-speech data collection**, we'd love to talk —
-reach us at **shigabeevilya@gmail.com**.
+**Commercial inquiries are highly welcome.** For **$1000** we provide a commercial
+agreement that includes **indemnification rights** and other commercial services —
+a signed license, clean-rights warranty, support, and **custom or exclusive
+expressive-speech data collection** to your spec. Email **shigabeevilya@gmail.com**.
 
-Released under the **Dialogs Responsible-Use License v1.1** (OpenRAIL-style); the
-full, binding terms are in [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md).
+**Donations are very welcome** and help us record and release more open data — get
+in touch at the same address.
 
 ## Citation