About YOLONAS License

[fcakyon]

Hello,

As far as I understood, YOLONAS license prevents the commercial use of any forks of the repo with custom architectural changes. It also prevents the commercial use of any custom finetuned model. Am I right on that?

https://github.com/Deci-AI/super-gradients/blob/1c67ce369b53daf162a91faacb24f3501e7b84ad/LICENSE.YOLONAS.md

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[ofrimasad]

Hi @fcakyon .
The license does not limit any fork. the code itself can be used under the Apache 2.0 license terms.
You can train the model from scratch without using the pre-trained weight under the Apache 2.0 license terms.

Only if you are using the pre-trained weights you are bounded to the non-commercial license.
If you fine-tune your model based on the pte-trained weights then you are bounded to the non-commercial license.

[NeovMs]

If we use the pre-trained models for knowledge distillation to pre-train the Yolo-NAS from scratch, we're not strictly using the weights. In this case, can we get round the licence ?