Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, adapt, translate and build commercial products on the framework. Give attribution, name the version, and do not imply that we endorse what you built.

Use requires no fee, no account, and no relationship with any training or certification body

There is nothing to sign, nobody to ask, and no partner to go through. If someone tells you that using this framework requires their licence, their membership or their approval, they are misrepresenting it. The only thing you cannot take for free is the claim that you conform — that has conditions, on the conformance page.

Explicitly permitted

YESCommercial use of every kind, including paid courses, paid credentials and consulting.

YESReproducing statement text and identifiers verbatim, in whole or in part.

YESTranslation into any language, provided the translation is labelled as such.

YESExtending the framework with your own statements, published as an extension proposal or on your own site.

YESEmbedding the framework in software products, learning platforms and assessment tooling.

YESBuilding and selling credentials that map to the framework, with no fee to us and no revenue share.

Explicitly required

MUSTAttribute the framework to AI Certification Standards, and say where it came from.

MUSTName the version you used. “The AI Competence Framework” without a version is not sufficient attribution.

MUSTDo not state or imply that we endorse, approve, accredit or quality assure your course, credential or product.

MUSTLabel adaptations, translations and extensions as your own work rather than as the framework itself.

MUSTDo not reuse a statement identifier for content that is not that statement, in any document or language.

Attribution · copy and paste

Four places you will need it, written out

Attribution must name the framework, the version, and where it came from. Beyond that the wording is yours; these are the versions we would use, adjusted for the space each medium gives you.

Course syllabus

full form

Mapped to the AI Competence Framework v1.29, published by AI Certification Standards under CC BY 4.0. Framework text reproduced with attribution. This mapping is the provider's own and has not been reviewed by AI Certification Standards.

Slide

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Source: AI Competence Framework v1.29 · AI Certification Standards · CC BY 4.0

Web page

with link

Statements from the AI Competence Framework v1.29 by AI Certification Standards, used under CC BY 4.0. aicertificationstandards.org/framework/v1.29

Printed document

no live links

Contains material from the AI Competence Framework, version 1.29 (AI Certification Standards), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. The framework is available at aicertificationstandards.org/framework.

Where the licence ends

Content is licensed. The claim is not.

The licence governs the words: statements, indicators, definitions, this documentation. It does not govern our name, our logo, the conformance seal, or the assertion that something conforms. Those are covered by the trademark policy, and that is a deliberate separation: if the claim were as free as the content, the claim would be worth nothing.

Thing	Governed by
Statement text, indicators, evidence examples, glossary definitions	LICENCE
This documentation and the methodology	LICENCE
The JSON, CSV and schema files	LICENCE
The name “AI Certification Standards” and our logo	TRADEMARK
The conformance seal artwork, at every tier	TRADEMARK
Any claim that a course or credential conforms	TRADEMARK

The trademark and seal policy

Questions we are actually asked

Do we need permission to reproduce the whole framework?

No. Reproduce all of it if that is useful, with attribution and the version named. You do not need to tell us.

Can we charge for a course built on it?

Yes, at any price you like. The licence has no commercial restriction and we take no share.

Can we say our course is “based on the AI Competence Framework”?

Yes. You may not say verified, reviewed, approved, accredited or quality assured unless you hold the tier that permits it.

Can we modify a statement and keep its identifier?

No. An identifier means one specific competence permanently. Modify the wording and you have written your own statement; give it your own reference.

Do we need to publish our coverage map?

Not to use the framework. Yes, to make a listable conformance claim at any tier, including Tier 0.

Copy blocks

Marks and seal

Claim tiers

The mechanism

Licence applies to framework version 1.29 and to every released version · unchanged since first release