Model license clarification

[Godnoken]

Hello,

'Models produced by the Bergamot project are released under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.'

If I use the software under the MIT license in this repo and create a model - is that model automatically under this license? Or are we strictly talking about the models released in this repo?

And if I may be so cheeky to ask, without taking it as legal advice - is it possible to not have to release my own software under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license (or any other compatible license), if I include any of these Bergamot-released models (unmodified) in my software?

Thank you!

[kpu]

You are welcome to use the scripts to train your own model. At least from our side---check your data sources too--the software imposes no constraint on the license of the model you train.

Regarding your second question about combining work, I will duck that question.

[Godnoken]

Great, thank you for the swift reply.

Regarding your second question about combining work, I will duck that question.

Understandably so. I've tried doing my research on it but the 4.0 version seems even less clear than the previous ones. There seem to be many 'loopholes' when it comes to non-code work licensed by CC-BY-SA, however it is hard to draw the line for where it ends and begins.

Both translateLocally & its web-ext 'uses' the models by letting users download them and use them with the software - without either software being under the CC-BY-SA license.
I assume this is due to translateLocally being developed by the same maintainers/organization, and not because of some exception in the license?

Edit
Actually, it would seem that it is the latter if I've understood it correctly now. As long as the model is not distributed with the software, it shouldn't be necessary to enforce the license on the software.