# For released weights of Real-ESRGAN, FILM, RIFE and Practical-RIFE, what do the repositories say or not say about terms inherited from the training datasets, per component?

- id: art_01M5MBZNN3A38BF2WJDXP8TYWF
- 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, T16, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T12:32:45.212Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5MBZNN3A38BF2WJDXP8TYWF

At the pinned commits, no repository README or training doc mentions inherited dataset terms for the weights. Code licences are explicit (Real-ESRGAN BSD-3-Clause, RIFE and Practical-RIFE MIT, FILM Apache-2.0). Only the Practical-RIFE README says its linked model files carry the same MIT licence as the project, and it names no training dataset. Real-ESRGAN names DIV2K as training data while the DIV2K page says academic research purpose only; the Real-ESRGAN files read do not mention that sentence. Whether one affects the other is a legal question and is left to curation.

At the pinned commits, no repository README or training doc mentions inherited dataset terms for the weights. Code licences are explicit (Real-ESRGAN BSD-3-Clause, RIFE and Practical-RIFE MIT, FILM Apache-2.0). Only the Practical-RIFE README says its linked model files carry the same MIT licence as the project, and it names no training dataset. Real-ESRGAN names DIV2K as training data while the DIV2K page says academic research purpose only; the Real-ESRGAN files read do not mention that sentence. Whether one affects the other is a legal question and is left to curation.

Curator qualifications: Per-repository statements verify and agree with C3R-0172; the new training-doc and dataset-page checks verify. No repository sentence links dataset terms to weights. Curator addition: the ToFlow repository, which hosts the Vimeo-90K description and download scripts, carries an MIT licence (Copyright (c) 2017 Baian Chen). That licence covers the repository and must not be read as a Vimeo-90K dataset licence. The dataset is built from 5,846 vimeo.com videos (a subset of the AoT dataset), whose per-video terms are third-party and unread. The rights 'datasets: conflicting' label is better read as 'stated for DIV2K (research-only), not stated for Flickr2K/OST/Vimeo-90K'. Absence of terms is not a conflict; the conflict lies between DIV2K's research-only sentence and any commercial reading of BSD-licensed Real-ESRGAN weights.

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://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/blob/a4abfb2979a7bbff3f69f58f58ae324608821e27/LICENSE",
      "note": "producer work copy work/re_Training.md; producer work copy work/prife_README.md; producer work copy work/toflow_LICENSE; producer work copy work/toflow_README.md; producer work copy work/vimeo.html; producer work copy work/div2k.html"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/blob/a4abfb2979a7bbff3f69f58f58ae324608821e27/README.md",
      "note": "producer work copy work/re_Training.md; producer work copy work/prife_README.md; producer work copy work/toflow_LICENSE; producer work copy work/toflow_README.md; producer work copy work/vimeo.html; producer work copy work/div2k.html"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/blob/a4abfb2979a7bbff3f69f58f58ae324608821e27/docs/model_zoo.md",
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    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/blob/a4abfb2979a7bbff3f69f58f58ae324608821e27/docs/Training.md",
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    },
    {
      "url": "http://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/cvl/DIV2K/",
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    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/google-research/frame-interpolation/blob/69f8708f08e62c2edf46a27616a4bfcf083e2076/LICENSE",
      "note": "producer work copy work/re_Training.md; producer work copy work/prife_README.md; producer work copy work/toflow_LICENSE; producer work copy work/toflow_README.md; producer work copy work/vimeo.html; producer work copy work/div2k.html"
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    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/hzwer/ECCV2022-RIFE/blob/5d8adbdd40e12c2c8f91930eff838aebe561c086/LICENSE",
      "note": "producer work copy work/re_Training.md; producer work copy work/prife_README.md; producer work copy work/toflow_LICENSE; producer work copy work/toflow_README.md; producer work copy work/vimeo.html; producer work copy work/div2k.html"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/hzwer/ECCV2022-RIFE/blob/5d8adbdd40e12c2c8f91930eff838aebe561c086/README.md",
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    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/hzwer/Practical-RIFE/blob/bbfd2ea90910789a860ea3e2b32a240cd577b75e/README.md",
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    },
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] At the pinned commits, no repository README or training doc mentions inherited dataset terms for the weights. Code licences are explicit (Real-ESRGAN BSD-3-Clause, RIFE and Practical-RIFE MIT, FILM Apache-2.0). Only the Practical-RIFE README says its linked model files carry the same MIT licence as the project, and it names no training dataset. Real-ESRGAN names DIV2K as training data while the DIV2K page says academic research purpose only; the Real-ESRGAN files read do not mention that sentence. Whether one affects the other is a legal question and is left to curation. · locator: producer work copy work/re_Training.md; producer work copy work/prife_README.md; producer work copy work/toflow_LICENSE; producer work copy work/toflow_README.md; producer work copy work/vimeo.html; producer work copy work/div2k.html · source: https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/blob/a4abfb2979a7bbff3f69f58f58ae324608821e27/LICENSE

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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