Downloads

The ToG licence, its registry standard and examples, as PDF. Free for anyone to download.

Examples use fictional names and codes.

Licence and standard

ToG-L 1.0: Terms of Generation Licence

The full legal text, the same for every person and company. Read online

File: ToG-L-1.0.pdf · 728 KB
SHA-256: aed61f054d2b011cbb1957e0078cd04fbe7e420c2f24d9e6c59d3164654a4367
Text fingerprint: 567cc9e2070f1b1a57d6f1c2fed41bb9887489699e7dd49f16e8ab25ac73c3f2 How to check

ToG-L 1.0 in plain words

A short summary of the licence. It is not the licence. Read online

File: ToG-L-1.0-plain-words.pdf · 106 KB
SHA-256: d6a94497c58197d89be3ee09ced3da1921ea8be8bbbd2f17e68f1c4212ea7f3c

ToG-RS 1.0: ToG Registry Standard

What every registry must do to be listed.

File: ToG-RS-1.0.pdf · 434 KB
SHA-256: 6f71a2b79c0f1b9563e2e3fb5f15fe9e133b9dc8ad1fbc69c2ba0839416dcacf
Text fingerprint: ba764bc88ec530f27523785db30925c74a68304d278f2d9883c340ae145c248d How to check

Examples

Examples only. Every name, code, registry and hash in them is fictional, except the licence's own hash.

Example: a person says no

A person's ToG document: the licence, the person's ToG code and a no to AI.

File: ToG-L-1.0-example-person.pdf · 854 KB
SHA-256: 037ae54224382b9af648d0072850d1a96da8b02744191590199bbe50d4797884

Example: a company says yes, with a deal

A company's ToG document: its rules and one signed deal.

File: ToG-L-1.0-example-company.pdf · 905 KB
SHA-256: dd525f3bc5382c8e1703e4e93dec065b622f528e393f5b3d8db51350b7d6ffd6

Example: an AI company's undertaking

An AI service's public promise to follow the licence.

File: ToG-L-1.0-example-provider.pdf · 794 KB
SHA-256: 49705238b144d42a44013c655a90c817668a9a350cce4f4d171a9999bf69cdcf

Example: a platform's undertaking

A social network's promise to check ToG proofs and label AI content.

File: ToG-L-1.0-example-platform.pdf · 730 KB
SHA-256: e2ada929357c6f174efee25049a7861e78d3bb4536f66eb75316839993a6a410

Example: a security authorisation

A system owner's permission for AI security testing of its own systems.

File: ToG-L-1.0-example-security.pdf · 762 KB
SHA-256: a1d66f640a895a35ce608770a1afa2484c032e86f8d207455378dbe6f31735f7

How to check

The file. The SHA-256 of the PDF you downloaded must equal the one shown above.

shasum -a 256 ToG-L-1.0.pdf
certutil -hashfile ToG-L-1.0.pdf SHA256    (Windows)

The text fingerprint. The hash of the legal text itself, the same in every copy and every format, and printed in the PDF. Download the plain text, licence or standard, and hash it the same way.

shasum -a 256 legal-code.txt ToG-RS-1.0.txt

Earlier text

Statements signed before 13 November 2026 cite the earlier text, ToG 1.0 public draft 1. It stays here unchanged so their fingerprint can always be checked: ToG-1.0-public-draft-1.txt · SHA-256 b5ca28ccaeeecf3be03e7532b3460ff2d0d696c2f72cc7af1cff5ef5cdd178e4