License Incompatibility

#1
by qiuqiu666 - opened

Hi refiners team,
It looks like your model refiners/sd15.ic_light.fbc is published under the Apache-2.0 license, but it appears to be adapter-trained from refiners/sd15.unet, which is licensed under CreativeML OpenRAIL-M.

Under the terms of the CreativeML OpenRAIL-M License, there are specific restrictions on commercial use and distribution. The Apache 2.0 license, on the other hand, explicitly permits commercial use, redistribution, and sublicensing without such restrictions.

If your model incorporates substantial components or weights from sd15.unet, then releasing it under Apache-2.0 may create a licensing conflict, especially since the two licenses are not mutually compatible in terms of downstream usage rights.

To prevent potential misunderstandings or misuse, you might consider:

  • Switching the license of sd15.ic_light.fbc to match its upstream base (CreativeML OpenRAIL-M), or
  • Providing clarification in the README regarding which parts are subject to which license, and how the Apache-2.0 license applies.

Let me know if I’ve misunderstood the provenance of this model — happy to help revise this if needed!

Thanks for your attention!

Refiners org
edited Jun 25

Hello @qiuqiu666 - actually this is just a repack of the IC Light weights in a format compatible with Refiners, and IC Light is indeed published under creativeml-openrail-m. I think there was a confusion with the license of the code which is Apache 2. We will update the license, thanks for notifying us!

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