[hacktoberfest] Model `license:other` challenge

[Wauplin]

Issue to keep track of the "Model license:other challenge" for the Hacktoberfest 2023.

Context

The Hugging Face Hub hosts hundreds of thousands of public models and datasets. Public doesn't necessarily mean open-source without any limitations. Authors can define which license applies to the work they share (e.g. MIT, Apache2.0, OpenRAIL, etc.). All users must be able to quickly know which license applies to which model and even to list models with a specific license (e.g. Apache2.0). The Hub relies on the Model Card to do so. A Model Card is a file attached to a model providing handy information. They are essential for discoverability, reproducibility and sharing. In our case, we will focus on the metadata section of the Model Card. This metadata contains valuable information, including a license tag.

In this challenge, we will focus on models that has the license "other". This means that the model has a custom license defined by the author. For example, models from Coqui have their own coqui-public-model-license. Historically, this information was not available in the model card metadata. This is now possible by adding the license name and a URL to it:

# Example from https://huggingface.co/coqui/XTTS-v1
---
license: other
license_name: coqui-public-model-license
license_link: https://coqui.ai/cpml
---

Instructions

Check out the instructions details here.

Feel free to ping @davanstrien or @Wauplin for any question or review.

[ayan-joshi]

@Wauplin can you assign me this issue with hacktoberfest label

[thanktua-spp]

Hi @Wauplin, I completed a task to update a model license but am unable to update the License List. Can you please help? Many thanks

[stefan-it]

@Wauplin could you please label this issue also with a hacktoberfest label :hugs:

[Wauplin]

@Wauplin can you assign me this issue with hacktoberfest label

@Wauplin could you please label this issue also with a hacktoberfest label 🤗

Yes! Sorry for the confusion. We just tagged to whole repo as "hacktoberfest" so participation to any PR/issue should not be counted correctly (might need a few hours delay to appear on https://hacktoberfest.com/).

[Wauplin]

I completed a task to update a model license but am unable to update the License List. Can you please help? Many thanks

@thanktua-spp Thank you! You should be able to open a PR on the License list by going to and clicking on the little pen in the top right corner. It will let you contribute and open a PR on this repo (you must be logged in with Github). In the PR you should update the line that you've done with status and pr_url: Example: | Merged | [here](link to your PR) (by @ayan-joshi) | ...

[thanktua-spp]

thankyou! this worked.

[pksX01]

@Wauplin Could you please review this PR #1001 .

[Wauplin]

@Wauplin Could you please review this PR #1001 .

Yes for sure! Thanks for your contribution :hugs:

[shreyashkar-ml]

@Wauplin could you please review this PR #1009

[Wauplin]

@Wauplin could you please review this PR #1009

Sure, of course! PR approved and merged :tada: Thank you for opening it :hugs:

[Ashish-Soni08]

Hey @Wauplin, Hope you are doing great! Could you please review this PR #1054

[Wauplin]

Hey @Wauplin, Hope you are doing great! Could you please review this PR https://github.com/huggingface/hub-docs/pull/1054

Yes of course! Thanks for opening the PR :pray: I just merged it so congratulation for this first contribution on HF :hugs:

[Ashish-Soni08]

@Wauplin Last ones #1055, #1056 , #1057, #1058, #1059, #1060, #1061. thank you for your time :)

[Wauplin]

Wow, you were on fire @Ashish-Soni08! :fire: :fire: :fire: I merged 4 of them and commented on 3 others. Thanks a lot!!

[Ashish-Soni08]

Thank you @Wauplin. I made the required/suggested changes to 2 and closed 1, in the ones that are left.

[Wauplin]

Perfect! 6 merged, 1 closed then. Thanks again! :)