Licensing Clarification
#13
by
JeevanBhoot
- opened
I just wanted to ask for some clarification around licensing and commercial use, as there seem to be a few mixed messages.
I noticed that the terms say:
“Researcher shall use the Database only for non-commercial research and educational purposes.”
But elsewhere it’s mentioned:
“Speech recognition models trained on the GigaSpeech dataset may be eligible for commercial license, provided they abide by the 'Fair Use' terms...”
Also, since the dataset is on HuggingFace under an Apache 2.0 licence (which I believe allows commercial use), I’m a bit confused about what’s actually permitted.
Could you clarify:
- Is it okay to use GigaSpeech to train models for commercial use?
- Does the Apache 2.0 licence cover everything in the dataset, including audio files?
- Are there any extra restrictions we should keep in mind apart from general copyright rules?
Would really appreciate any guidance on this. Thanks in advance!