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Qwen Image 2.1

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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. unrented7977 · 1789915980 · focus · HN ↗
  I'm willing to bet a nonzero amount of its training material is GPL, so I'll treat it as GPL licensed instead and use it however the fuck I want.
  If AI labs get to ignore licenses, so do we.
  1. user43928 · 1789917820 · focus · HN ↗
    It's not going to matter unless you plan to commercially deploy the model, as far as I see.
    If you were to generate outputs for commercial use, I think it would still violate this research license, but it's not like they are going to know, are they?
    That said, I am disappointed that the model is not actually open-weights as I expected based on the headline.
    CamperBob2 · 1789922012 · focus · HN ↗
    It's not going to matter unless you plan to commercially deploy the model, as far as I see.
    It's not going to matter then, either. What are they going to do, sue me for copyright infringement?
    KeplerBoy · 1789922410 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes? If you deploy the model and provide it on Openrouter (or elsewhere) you better have a license.
    CamperBob2 · 1789922541 · focus · HN ↗
    No need to deploy it publicly. It's 7B, it'll run on a 3090.
    finnjohnsen2 · 1789990923 · focus · HN ↗
    yes, but it uses 17gb VRAM when running a 50 inference steps generation from prompt. Which is more than I expected since a 7B model sounds little.

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