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Qwen Image 2.1

740 points · 199 comments · jmillikin

jfoster · 1789913791 · focus · HN ↗
A lot of the previous Qwen models seem to have used Apache licenses, among others:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwen#List_of_models" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwen#List_of_models
Unfortunately, it looks like this model is using a much more restrictive license:
<a href="https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-2.1/blob/main/LICENSE" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-2.1/blob/main/LICENSE
1. gregoriol · 1789913960 · focus · HN ↗
  Was going to post about this: the last image models with Apache 2.0 license seem to be from 2025, recent Qwen models are "non-commercial use".
  1. bloaf · 1789915406 · focus · HN ↗
    I love the non-commercial clauses because of how many people are using these for deceptive ads and “virtual staging” and fake social media accounts. Anything that makes those guys lives harder while still letting me make silly pictures for my kids and tapestries for my D&D campaign feel fine by me.
    user43928 · 1789917991 · focus · HN ↗
    This achieves absolutely nothing to that end.
    People can continue to use closed SOTA models to generate outputs for commercial or malicious purposes.
    What this research license achieves is that we cannot use this model in applications we publish.

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