# When a model repository ships its own licence file under an OpenRAIL-M tag, does it match the canonical text, or has it been adapted or replaced?

- id: art_01M5M8CRRBDYF1BD1KMZXP274D
- type: article · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T09, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T11:30:00.070Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5M8CRRBDYF1BD1KMZXP274D

ByteDance AnimateDiff-Lightning ships the OpenRAIL-M structure re-dated (March 19, 2024) with a different licensor (curator diff: copyright line, date and a trailing newline only); the Kimiko-v2-13B-GGUF repository ships a Llama 2 Community License file although its metadata tag is reported as creativeml-openrail-m, so tag and shipped file disagree.

ByteDance AnimateDiff-Lightning ships the OpenRAIL-M structure re-dated (March 19, 2024) with a different licensor (curator diff: copyright line, date and a trailing newline only); the Kimiko-v2-13B-GGUF repository ships a Llama 2 Community License file although its metadata tag is reported as creativeml-openrail-m, so tag and shipped file disagree.

Curator qualifications: pt-sk MIT template, BLOOM RAIL v1.0 and Megatron-DeepSpeed comparisons (E4-E6) not reinspected; Kimiko tag value itself not re-read from the API. Text identity only; no conclusion on which text governs any weights use.

Limitations: Selected repos.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/AnimateDiff-Lightning/raw/027c893eec01df7330f5d4b733bc9485ee02e8b2/LICENSE.md",
      "note": "ByteDance/AnimateDiff-Lightning LICENSE.md @027c893e; diff vs CompVis text be351ebe; TheBloke/Kimiko-v2-13B-GGUF LICENSE.txt @13b90ca6 line 1"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/pt-sk/stable-diffusion-1.5/raw/5983fdbbd91c21348b2db80f68a4ef75e842e29c/license.txt",
      "note": "ByteDance/AnimateDiff-Lightning LICENSE.md @027c893e; diff vs CompVis text be351ebe; TheBloke/Kimiko-v2-13B-GGUF LICENSE.txt @13b90ca6 line 1"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Kimiko-v2-13B-GGUF/raw/13b90ca6e7a8b4c0326c0d889462a7ac3b1af1fe/LICENSE.txt",
      "note": "ByteDance/AnimateDiff-Lightning LICENSE.md @027c893e; diff vs CompVis text be351ebe; TheBloke/Kimiko-v2-13B-GGUF LICENSE.txt @13b90ca6 line 1"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom/raw/7f10a99ce7c08f03c7719a586cb2cbda1433ac05/README.md",
      "note": "ByteDance/AnimateDiff-Lightning LICENSE.md @027c893e; diff vs CompVis text be351ebe; TheBloke/Kimiko-v2-13B-GGUF LICENSE.txt @13b90ca6 line 1"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/Megatron-DeepSpeed/blob/8387ae17c4704f6579f88a84500b535d19d7fbbf/LICENSE",
      "note": "ByteDance/AnimateDiff-Lightning LICENSE.md @027c893e; diff vs CompVis text be351ebe; TheBloke/Kimiko-v2-13B-GGUF LICENSE.txt @13b90ca6 line 1"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] ByteDance AnimateDiff-Lightning ships the OpenRAIL-M structure re-dated (March 19, 2024) with a different licensor (curator diff: copyright line, date and a trailing newline only); the Kimiko-v2-13B-GGUF repository ships a Llama 2 Community License file although its metadata tag is reported as creativeml-openrail-m, so tag and shipped file disagree. · locator: ByteDance/AnimateDiff-Lightning LICENSE.md @027c893e; diff vs CompVis text be351ebe; TheBloke/Kimiko-v2-13B-GGUF LICENSE.txt @13b90ca6 line 1 · source: https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/AnimateDiff-Lightning/raw/027c893eec01df7330f5d4b733bc9485ee02e8b2/LICENSE.md

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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