licensing (#8)

- Updated licencing terms to RAIL-D allowing commercial use. (7f9bba9360848b1a10ad05b25aa3b4781c50262c)
- Switch metadata license field to 'other' (RAIL-D custom) (b604859460ee43cb28766d2089f8a55db0cc4099)
- Switch metadata license field to 'other' (rail-d custom) (b6252249300fc5f1ee8feb3d8555dd647a696c70)


Co-authored-by: Amod S <[email protected]>

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README.md

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 ---
-license: openrail
+license: other
+license_name: rail-d
+license_files: LICENSE-RAIL-D.txt
 task_categories:
 - text-generation
 - question-answering
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 ## Table of Contents
 - [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
   - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
-  - [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
+  - [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks)
   - [Languages](#languages)
 - [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
   - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
-  - [Data Fields](#data-instances)
+  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
   - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
 - [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
   - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
   - [Source Data](#source-data)
-  - [Annotations](#annotations)
   - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
+- [Licence and Commercial-Use Terms](#licence-and-commercial-use-terms)
 
 ## Dataset Description
 
-- **Homepage:**
-- **Repository:**
-- **Paper:** Bertagnolli, Nicolas (2020). Counsel chat: Bootstrapping high-quality therapy data. Towards Data Science. https://towardsdatascience.com/counsel-chat
-- **Leaderboard:**
-- **Point of Contact:**
+- **Point of Contact:** [email protected]
 
 ### Dataset Summary
+This dataset is a collection of real counselling question-and-answer pairs taken from two public mental-health platforms.  
+It is intended for training and evaluating language models that provide safer, context-aware mental-health responses.
 
-This dataset is a collection of questions and answers sourced from two online counseling and therapy platforms. The questions cover a wide range of mental health topics, and the answers are provided by qualified psychologists. The dataset is intended to be used for fine-tuning language models to improve their ability to provide mental health advice.
-
-### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
-
-The dataset supports the task of text generation, particularly for generating advice or suggestions in response to a mental health-related question.
+### Supported Tasks
+Text generation and question-answering with an advice-giving focus.
 
 ### Languages
-
-The text in the dataset is in English.
+English (en)
 
 ## Dataset Structure
 
 ### Data Instances
-
-A data instance includes a 'Context' and a 'Response'. 'Context' contains the question asked by a user, and 'Response' contains the corresponding answer provided by a psychologist.
+Each instance contains:
+- **Context** – the user’s question  
+- **Response** – the psychologist’s answer  
 
 ### Data Fields
-
-- 'Context': a string containing the question asked by a user
-- 'Response': a string containing the corresponding answer provided by a psychologist
+- `Context` *:string*  
+- `Response` *:string*  
 
 ### Data Splits
-
-The dataset has no predefined splits. Users can create their own splits as needed.
+No predefined splits. Users may create their own.
 
 ## Dataset Creation
 
 ### Curation Rationale
-
-This dataset was created to aid in the development of AI models that can provide mental health advice or guidance. The raw data was meticulously cleaned to only include the conversations.
+Created to advance AI systems that deliver compassionate, evidence-based mental-health guidance.  
+All data were anonymised and retained verbatim to preserve conversational integrity.
 
 ### Source Data
+Collected directly from two publicly accessible counselling websites; no private or paid sources were used.
 
-The data was sourced from two online counseling and therapy platforms. The raw data can be found [here](https://github.com/nbertagnolli/counsel-chat/tree/master/data).
+### Personal and Sensitive Information
+Content is sensitive by nature. All personally identifiable information has been removed during curation.
 
-### Annotations
+## Licence and Commercial-Use Terms
 
-The dataset does not contain any additional annotations.
+This dataset is released under **RAIL-D**.
 
-### Personal and Sensitive Information
+**Free non-commercial research use**  
+Academic, scientific, educational and other non-profit uses are royalty-free. Users must comply with the ethical restrictions in `LICENSE-RAIL-D.txt`.
+
+**Commercial use — mandatory donation**  
+Any commercial use requires a donation of **USD 100 or more** to the CCC Foundation mental-health helpline.  
+Donation page: <https://1333.lk/donations>  
+Email proof of donation to **[email protected]** within thirty (30) days before or after first commercial deployment.  
+Commercial rights terminate automatically if proof is not provided.
+
+**No content modification**  
+Filtering or subsetting is allowed, but individual question-and-answer pairs must not be rewritten, deleted, or altered.
+
+**Redistribution**  
+Permitted only in the original, unmodified form and with this licence attached.
 
-The dataset may contain sensitive information related to mental health. All data was anonymized and no personally identifiable information is included.
+The full legal text is provided in `LICENSE-RAIL-D.txt` within this repository.