Information regarding license

#5
by Nightoo - opened

Hello and thank you very much for publishing this amazing model!

I am considering using it for a commercial product, and am wondering which parts here cannot be used due to the cc-by-nc-4.0 license. Any advice would be appreciated!

Questions are as follows:

  1. is the code covered by the license (i.e. this cannot be used at all commnercially), or
  2. does the license come from the used dataset? (i.e. it can be used commercially as long as the model is retrained from scratch using different data). If so:
  3. which components are okay by the license, and which ones would have to be retrained from scratch? The relevant components as far as I see are
    a) the Japanese PL-BERT
    b) the F0 pitch extractor
    c) the text & prompt encoder (Kotodama Sampler & Prompter) (probably not necessary for us)
    d) the main model (Top_ckpt_24khz.pth)
    e) the text aligner ASR model

Good day to you too, I'm glad you liked it!

The code in this repository and the main model’s checkpoint are under a non-commercial license. Small startups are permitted to use them commercially if they agree to share a 10% Royalty fee on the gross revenue from the section of the business that this model was used, once the project becomes profitable.

But the remaining components (PL-Bert, F0, Text-aligner) can be used without restrictions.

Thanks a lot for the clarification! Much appreciated!

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