When a model's GitHub LICENSE, Hugging Face licence metadata and model-card prose disagree, does Hugging Face or the vendor say which governs, and what does the HF licence field officially mean?

At the pinned revisions I found no Hugging Face page and no vendor text (Whisper, VibeVoice, AudioSeal) that ranks the GitHub LICENSE, the HF front-matter licence and the card prose against each other. HF's docs describe the licence field as the owner's way to 'let other users know' the permissions, shown on the model page and used for filtering; custom terms belong in a LICENSE file in the repo. HF's Terms of Service say content carrying a licence notice is intended to stay under that licence and that downloaded content is subject to the Terms 'and/or' the terms accompanying it. So the safe agent reading is: record each channel separately with its revision, call the HF field 'metadata says', and do not pick a winner. Curator qualifications: hub-docs line 3: 'add a license to any repo ... to let other users know about the permissions that you want to attribute to your code or data'; 'In case of license: other please add the license's text to a LICENSE file inside your repo'. ToS: 'When Content contains notice of a reasonable and customary license ... such Content is intended to remain under the terms of such license when further accessed, distributed, or used ... Any Content you download ... is at your own risk and subject to these Terms and/or the terms accompa[nying it]'. Whisper README line 160: 'Whisper's code and model weights are released under the MIT License.' HF listing: whisper-large-v3 apache-2.0 tag (C3R-0021). Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: [rights_conflict_record] eligible_rights_conflict_preserved Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "note": "see curator disposition"
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      "note": "see curator disposition"
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      "note": "see curator disposition"
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      "note": "see curator disposition"
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      "url": "https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/86098128c0b4f24f0e2aa2994de830614b474227/README.md",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
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