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ADR-0003: marola-ml is MIT again, and the model is marola-gpt
Status Proposed (2026-10-14), by the owner's order
Supersedes the licence of ADR 0002 (its decision 3), and the name marolaGPT

Context

The owner, 14 October 2026: "change license of marola-ml to MIT, so you can distribute with no problem. Dont do any minting for now, change the name to marola-gpt not marolagpt, name this prepare for 0.0.1 release on hugging face, update README.md license".

Decision

  1. MIT. LICENSE is the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2026 marola.dev, byte for byte the one v0.1.0 was released with. It covers the code and the model it trains. sea/nanogpt/ keeps nanoGPT's own MIT License.
  2. The name is marola-gpt, everywhere: the recipes (just marola-gpt and its steps), the tags (marola-gpt-vX.Y.Z), the release directory (sea/release/marola-gpt-<version>/), the Hugging Face repository (h0ffmann/marola-gpt) and the model card.
  3. The first release is 0.0.1. just sea-release counts from 0.0.0, so its first patch is marola-gpt-v0.0.1.
  4. Public on Hugging Face. sea/publish_hf.py creates the repository public; --private is the exception.
  5. No DOI for now. marola-ml#56 waits.

Consequences

  • The restricted licence was on main from #53 to this change, and no release was made under it: the only release is v0.1.0, MIT. The question of relicensing contributors' code is gone.
  • ADR 0002's chain (the recipes, the release directory, the publish workflow) stands, under the new name; its licence and its "no distribution outside marola" consequences do not.
  • marola-gpt-publish.yml still keeps no workflow artifact; the reason now is only that a release belongs on Hugging Face, not in a run's storage.