World model licensing is a mess: open weights, restrictive decoders block commercial use
prateekj · x · 2026-11-08
A practitioner calls out the messy licensing landscape for world models: companies release open weights but attach confusing restrictions on commercial use, post-training, and hosted inference. Even an Apache-licensed model can ship with a strictly non-commercial decoder, making the whole package unusable for developers. The author argues for a standardized license distinguishing research use, commercial deployment, and API hosting.
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