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I could now find license in the huggingface repo, but it seems like the codebase is Apache 2.0. Are the pretrained weights / checkpoints also covered under this
by mahnerak 4y ago
I could now find license in the huggingface repo, but it seems like the codebase is Apache 2.0. Are the pretrained weights / checkpoints also covered under this (or other permissive) license?
In other words, can we use it for commercial purposes for free?
- vov_or 4y agoHi! Just added Apache2.0 to HF models card. Thanks!
- cosmojg 4y agoAre the pretraining and training pipelines available anywhere under a FOSS license? I'd love to take a swing at training a mid-fusion model on data other than text and images (e.g., sound, neuron spike trains, etc.)
- grammers 4y agoGood question, was about to ask the same!
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoAre weights even copyrightable under US law? It seems like they'd be the output of an automatic process (the training program) the same way the art/text produced by AI models is, which to my understanding makes them not copyrightable material.
- skybrian 4y agoCompression, even lossy compression, doesn't remove copyright. Whether this is more like compression or a more "transformative use" is something the courts will have to decide someday. It might be a good time to reread What Color Are Your Bits: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
- renonce 4y agoThere is a lot of manual process involved such as writing training scripts, scarping and processing training data, choosing the best weights among several runs, and spending lots of costly computation. Maybe these should make it copyrightable.