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LAVIS - A One-stop Library for Language-Vision Intelligence
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Clarification on Commercial Use and Licensing of Specific Pretrained Models #454

Open ae14watanabe opened 1 year ago

ae14watanabe commented 1 year ago

Hello,

Having read the discussion in Issue #187, it's my understanding that the models developed by the Salesforce team (ALBEF, BLIP, BLIP, BLIP2, ALPRO, img2prompt, pnp-vqa) are stated to be free for both commercial and non-commercial use. I want to make sure I've fully grasped the intended meaning of this, so I'd appreciate if you could confirm my understanding.

The code of this repository is under BSD 3-Clause License, and I'd like to clarify if the same license applies to the pretrained weights of the above-mentioned models. More specifically, I want to confirm whether these pretrained models can be utilized without any restrictions in a commercial context, and whether such use is intended to be free of charge.

Furthermore, I noticed the model card for BLIP-2 states "It should not be directly used in real-world applications without human supervision." I was unable to find model cards for other models like ALBEF or BLIP. Are there similar usage recommendations or precautions for these models?

Thank you for your assistance, and I appreciate the work you are doing with this library.

Best, @ae14watanabe

dxli94 commented 1 year ago

@ae14watanabe, BLIP-2 / img2prompt also rely on LLMs, such as T5 and OPT. It is also required to follow their licenses.

ae14watanabe commented 1 year ago

@dxli94 Thank you for your response!

For the pretrained BLIP and ALBEF models, my understanding is that they are solely based on the BSD 3-Clause License of this repository, and thus can be freely used in commercial applications. Can you please confirm if this understanding is correct?