No that's what I was getting at. For roughly half the models I come across, the weights are published on HF. For the other half, the weights are available via GitHub (either the releases section, or a link to something like Google Drive).
When you download the weights is it in a github with a LICENCE file or some other agreement? Most likely the reason is yes. If you don't understand I would try to email the person if you can use it.
Companies deal with this probably since they have their own data and probably would either need a custom solution or if it is relatively easy to do they would use a third party. (clarfai).
If you want to live on the legal edge, it’s unclear whether there is any copyright in model weights (since they don’t have human authorship), so just wait for someone to post the weights someplace where you can get them without agreeing to the license.
* throws weights (in Windows) in /users/username/.cache in a proprietary directory structure, eating up tens of gigs without telling you or letting you share them with other clients
* won't let you import models you download yourself
you don't need access to the weights though, unless I missed something? this is akin to the various groups using GPT-3.5/4 to generate data for fine-tuning smaller models
Thanks a lot for the advice! It really helps!
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