D13 — Model licensing is open for the models that already ship #22

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2026-09-05T16:20:11Z

dtourolle commented

2026-09-05 16:20:11 +00:00

Decision D13 — face inference runtime and model licensing. The runtime half is answered; the licensing half is open.

Why it is not just paperwork

Two face models already ship in models/, and a YOLO segmentation model ships in core/dr-segment/models/. The licences under which those may be redistributed inside a GPLv3 application are unsettled — for models that are already in the tree, not hypothetical ones.

docs/faces.md records the problem directly, and S14 measured the pipeline over an 18,143-face library without settling it.

Consequence

It blocks #21 — AI denoise — because adding a third learned stage adds a third licence to answer for.

What closes this

A decision recorded in requirements.md: for each shipped model, the licence, whether redistribution inside a GPLv3 binary is permitted, and what the fallback is if it is not. Not code.

See docs/outstanding.md §3 and docs/faces.md.

**Decision D13 — face inference runtime and model licensing.** The runtime half is answered; the licensing half is open. ## Why it is not just paperwork Two face models already ship in `models/`, and a YOLO segmentation model ships in `core/dr-segment/models/`. The licences under which those may be redistributed inside a GPLv3 application are unsettled — for models that are **already in the tree**, not hypothetical ones. `docs/faces.md` records the problem directly, and S14 measured the pipeline over an 18,143-face library without settling it. ## Consequence It blocks #21 — AI denoise — because adding a third learned stage adds a third licence to answer for. ## What closes this A decision recorded in `requirements.md`: for each shipped model, the licence, whether redistribution inside a GPLv3 binary is permitted, and what the fallback is if it is not. Not code. See `docs/outstanding.md` §3 and `docs/faces.md`.

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FR-DEV-3g — AI denoise #21

dtourolle commented

2026-09-05 16:20:51 +00:00

Blocks #21.

**Blocks** #21.

dtourolle commented

2026-09-19 10:19:25 +00:00

Position recorded 2026-09-19 (5fe88af): non-commercial software, self-installed, using the weights under their research grant as such, with the risks 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. NFR-COMPAT-2 now names self-distribution only for that reason. S14's licence search remains the way to close it; that is not this issue.

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2026-09-19 10:19:26 +00:00

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FR-DEV-3g — AI denoise #21

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Reference: dtourolle/DarkRoom#22