Change license?

[Karol-G]

Hi,

thanks for this project! Would it be possible to change the license to a less restrictive one? GPL is a really bad license in that sense as any project that builds upon this project is also required to be GPL, which is in many cases not desired. Or does this framework already include code from YOLOv3-5 and therefore has to be GPL?

Best, Karol

[lucasjinreal]

@Karol-G Hi, thanks for your interest. YOLOv7 also build with some open source projects support, but we made a lot of effort on it and provides massive features that no where to found on open source as we know. However, we really want anyone build something powerful with YOLOv7 can also be open sourced and shared with community. And I would really like make it valuable not just some mAP higher stuff, but make it more commercial valuable.

The training code will be still released under GPL, but for further development based on YOLOv7, such as model deployment, model compress, or model upgrade, we can make close source under our agreement.

[creativesalam]

Any update on deployment license? Can it be more relaxed?

[lucasjinreal]

@creativesalam Yes, as long as you become contributor of this repo.