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Record D13's position on the face weights

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The licensing half of D13 had been open since 2026-08-09, while the
InsightFace detectors and embedder shipped in the tree and indexed real
libraries. models/face/README.md already stated the position the
project was actually taking; the register did not.

Now it does: this is non-commercial software, self-installed, and it
uses the weights under their research grant as such. The risks are
written where the decision is — the grant binds every user, it is not
GPL-compatible, it rules out every public channel, and publishing is
what reopens the decision. S14's licence search is what would close it.
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### D13 — face inference runtime and model licensing · **RUNTIME ANSWERED, LICENSING OPEN**
### D13 — face inference runtime and model licensing · **RUNTIME ANSWERED · LICENSING POSITION RECORDED 2026-09-19**
> **Position, 2026-09-19.** DarkRoom is non-commercial software, built and installed by its
> author for personal libraries, and it uses the InsightFace SCRFD detectors and ArcFace embedder
> under their **non-commercial research grant** as such. That is the position, and it is taken
> with the risks written down rather than around them:
>
> - The grant is a **use** restriction and binds every user of the app, not only the project. It
> is not GPL-compatible and cannot become so; D8's licence covers this codebase and not those
> weights, which `models/face/README.md` says in as many words.
> - It is incompatible with **every public channel** — Flathub, F-Droid, Play. NFR-COMPAT-2's
> channels are therefore all self-distribution (a CI-built APK, a Flatpak and an Arch package
> installed by hand, an NSIS installer), and nothing is published to a store or a catalogue
> while these weights are in the tree. Publishing is the event that reopens this decision, and
> S14's licence search is what would close it: the OCEC eye-state weights showed a clean chain is
> possible, and a clean detector and embedder are what is missing.
> - The about screen names the models and their grant (NFR-SEC-5), so the person running the app
> can read the restriction they are under.
>
> The runtime half is unchanged below.
> **Updated 2026-08-21.** The runtime half of this decision is settled, and by a route the table
> below does not contain. `ort` 2.0's `alternative-backend` feature *disables its linking entirely*