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Code is MIT-labelled but vendors a CC BY-NC-SA component, and the weights sit behind a Hugging Face access gate.\n\nCurator qualifications: Code licences: root LICENSE 'MIT License' 'Copyright (c) 2025 Runjia Li'; extern/CUT3R/LICENSE 'CUT3R is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License' with an empty holder line 'Copyright [2025–present]'. HF API: gated 'auto', tags 'license:apache-2.0', cardData license apache-2.0, files README.md and vmem_weights.pth, lastModified 2025-06-24; card body not opened (gated). Table 2 (RealEstate10K cycles): ViewCrafter [43] and SEVA [46] (K = 17) rows identical '0.401 11.82 0.217 24.72 0.902 0.492'. Additional inconsistency not stated by the candidate: Table 2 'VMem (K = 4)' (LPIPS 0.397, PSNR 15.72, SSIM 0.297, Rdist 0.821, Tdist 0.392) equals Table 4's K=17 'Camera Distance (SEVA [46])' row (0.397 15.72 0.297 0.821 0.392), while Table 4's K=4 VMem row is 0.381 14.82 0.275 0.793 0.124. 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