# Do the Cosmos repositories, model cards and docs restate the NVIDIA Open Model License accurately, and do the dated versions that appear in model-card front matter differ from the current text?

- id: art_01M5MCM1BVGYPR44C3Y9Y4Y69D
- 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, T15, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T12:43:52.565Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5MCM1BVGYPR44C3Y9Y4Y69D

Three dated agreement texts are readable without accepting anything: the current page (October 24, 2025), the text embedded in the Cosmos-Predict2.5-14B card (September 23, 2025, an abridged rewording), and the text embedded in the Cosmos-Tokenize1 card (January 6, 2025). The January text uses 'Model Derivatives', has no Special-Purpose Model clause, no 'Guardrail' definition and no Separate Components section, and its guardrail sentence has no 'substantially similar Guardrail' exception. GitHub READMEs and the docs licence page restate the licence only by name and link. One Cosmos 3 model repository ships a LICENSE file that matches the October 2025 text. Model-card 'Important Note' paraphrases of the guardrail clause differ between cards.

Three dated agreement texts are readable without accepting anything: the current page (October 24, 2025), the text embedded in the Cosmos-Predict2.5-14B card (September 23, 2025, an abridged rewording), and the text embedded in the Cosmos-Tokenize1 card (January 6, 2025). The January text uses 'Model Derivatives', has no Special-Purpose Model clause, no 'Guardrail' definition and no Separate Components section, and its guardrail sentence has no 'substantially similar Guardrail' exception. GitHub READMEs and the docs licence page restate the licence only by name and link. One Cosmos 3 model repository ships a LICENSE file that matches the October 2025 text. Model-card 'Important Note' paraphrases of the guardrail clause differ between cards.

Curator qualifications: Tokenize1 card: 'Version Release Date: January 6, 2025'; 'substantially similar' 0; 'Model Derivatives' 3; 'Special-Purpose' 0. Predict2.5-14B card: 'Version Release Date: September 23, 2025'; 'substantially similar' 1; 'Special-Purpose' 2. Live licence: 'Last Modified: October 24, 2025' with the substantially-similar Guardrail wording. 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.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Cosmos-Tokenize1-CV8x8x8-720p",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Cosmos-Predict2.5-14B",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Cosmos3-H-Dreams",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-open-model-license.md",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/nvidia-cosmos/cosmos-predict1",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Cosmos-Reason1-7B",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Three dated agreement texts are readable without accepting anything: the current page (October 24, 2025), the text embedded in the Cosmos-Predict2.5-14B card (September 23, 2025, an abridged rewording), and the text embedded in the Cosmos-Tokenize1 card (January 6, 2025). The January text uses 'Model Derivatives', has no Special-Purpose Model clause, no 'Guardrail' definition and no Separate Components section, and its guardrail sentence has no 'substantially similar Guardrail' exception. GitHub READMEs and the docs licence page restate the licence only by name and link. One Cosmos 3 model repository ships a LICENSE file that matches the October 2025 text. Model-card 'Important Note' paraphrases of the guardrail clause differ between cards. · locator: see curator disposition · source: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Cosmos-Tokenize1-CV8x8x8-720p

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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