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Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3

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Re: Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3

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You can't use any of it commercially. Nothing within is under an acceptable software license (nor an open source license, nor a free software license). Advanced warning.

Nobody will be able to tell if you stick it in a tiny thumbnail and give it enough jpeg artifacts.

Re: Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3

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You can't use any of it commercially. Nothing within is under an acceptable software license (nor an open source license, nor a free software license). Advanced warning.

Nobody will be able to tell if you stick it in a tiny thumbnail and give it enough jpeg artifacts.

Computer-generated artifacts are non-copyrightable. This is not the problem. (That said, as the law is written, no binary should be, but we already threw that baby out with the bathwater.)

The problem is that the software is not free software, but encourages you to stop using its free predecessors and competition sneakily.

Re: Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3

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You can't use any of it commercially. Nothing within is under an acceptable software license (nor an open source license, nor a free software license). Advanced warning.

You are talking about the models, right? If you train your own model on your own data without transfer learning (or with transfer learning from a liberally licensed third party model once those exist) then you can do whatever you want to with your model, no?

Re: Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3

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post #3

You can't use any of it commercially. Nothing within is under an acceptable software license (nor an open source license, nor a free software license). Advanced warning.

Nobody will be able to tell if you stick it in a tiny thumbnail and give it enough jpeg artifacts.

Oh really? https://nvlabs-fi-cdn.nvidia.com/stylegan3/images/stylegan3-...

Re: Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3

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From the license file:

> 3.4 Patent Claims. If you bring or threaten to bring a patent claim against any Licensor (including any claim, cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) to enforce any patents that you allege are infringed by any Work, then your rights under this License from such Licensor (including the grant in Section 2.1) will terminate immediately.

Is such a clause legal? I have basically zero knowledge of such things, but it seems like it should be illegal to punish someone for a good faith patent claim.

Re: Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody will be able to tell if you stick it in a tiny thumbnail and give it enough jpeg artifacts.

Oh really? https://nvlabs-fi-cdn.nvidia.com/stylegan3/images/stylegan3-...

Obviously if you're using the GAN equivalent of a Megamind meme you won't get away with it, but more reasonable ones you can.

Re: Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3

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From the license file: > 3.4 Patent Claims. If you bring or threaten to bring a patent claim against any Licensor (including any claim, cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) to enforce any patents that you allege are infringed by any Work, then your rights under this License from such Licensor (including the grant in Section 2.1) will terminate immediately. Is such a clause legal? I have basically zero knowledge…

Apache 2.0 has a very similar clause. But there might be some subtle differences in the wording that makes this broader or stricter.
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