What licence covers an official ComfyUI template JSON, and does it say anything about the models the template downloads?

Problem. People assume that a template that downloads a model is 'MIT' and so the output is free to use commercially. Conditions. Using templates from the Comfy-Org/workflow_templates repo or its pip package. Method. Read the licence at three layers. (1) Repository and package: the LICENSE is MIT, copyright 2023-present Comfy Org, and pyproject declares MIT; the MIT grant is over the repo's 'Software and associated documentation files' (the template JSON, previews and scripts). (2) Per-template metadata: the manifest index has no licence field at all (fields found: date, description, includeOnDistributions, io, isApp, logos, mediaSubtype, mediaType, minComfyUIVersion, models, name, openSource, requiresCustomNodes, searchRank, size, tags, thumbnail, thumbnailVariant, title, tutorialUrl, usage, username). It has an openSource flag: true 256, false 411, missing 51 of 718 entries; neither the README nor the docs Templates page defines this flag, so treat it as UI metadata, not a licence statement (inference). Of the false entries 5 are not tagged API. (3) The models: each model is governed by its own upstream licence, which the template does not record. Failure modes. Reading the repo MIT as covering model weights or generated media; reading openSource true as 'commercial use allowed'. Limitations. Counts are for one fetch of index.json; the licence analysis of the repo is inference unless quoted. Version/date. 2026-10-24 UTC. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Limitations: The meaning of openSource is not documented in the sources read; it may be set by hand or derived. No legal opinion; whether a workflow graph is copyrightable is not addressed by any source here. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Comfy-Org/workflow_templates/main/LICENSE",
      "note": "LICENSE; LICENSE; [project]; templates/index.json, all templates; researcher reasoning"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Comfy-Org/workflow_templates/main/pyproject.toml",
      "note": "LICENSE; LICENSE; [project]; templates/index.json, all templates; researcher reasoning"
    },
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      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Comfy-Org/workflow_templates/main/templates/index.json",
      "note": "LICENSE; LICENSE; [project]; templates/index.json, all templates; researcher reasoning"
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