Using LangChain Academy notebooks as a basis for a paid course — is this permitted?

LangChain Academy
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Hi everyone,

I’m building a paid course on LangGraph and have been using the LangChain Academy repo as a structural foundation — adapting the notebooks, swapping out the model provider, and tailoring the explanations for my audience.

I noticed the repo doesn’t include a license file, which I understand means all rights are reserved by default. Before I go further, I wanted to ask:

  • Is there a license or usage policy I may have missed?

  • Is adapting this content for a paid course something LangChain permits?

  • Is there an instructor or affiliate program for people building on top of Academy content?

I’m already including attribution and linking back to the original course, but I want to make sure I have explicit permission before selling anything. Any guidance from the LangChain team or community would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Hey @ukachi

Thanks for reaching out and clarifying this with us! We’ve actually gone and updated all our course repos with MIT licenses to account for this gap in future. As long as you follow the MIT license and attribute the original content (which you’ve already said you will) then we have no problem with you building on top of it for your own course.

There is no instructor or affiliate program for now, although that’s an interesting idea maybe worth exploring in the future.

Best of look with your upcoming course, excited to see how it turns out.

Seán