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(2) Treat derivative works as bound by the same use limitation (section 4.2). (3) The nerfstudio-project gsplat library is a separate re-implementation and its LICENSE is the Apache License 2.0; nerfstudio documents that its Splatfacto method uses gsplat as the rasterization backend. (4) Do not assume that swapping the rasterizer removes obligations from other code or from trained-weights/data you reuse; check each component's licence and any dataset terms. Example. A pipeline that shells out to the Inria train.py inherits the non-commercial limit; one built on gsplat code is under Apache-2.0 for that code. Failure modes. Reading only the README badge; forks of the Inria repo keeping its licence; mixing Inria submodules (diff-gaussian-rasterization, SIBR viewers) into a gsplat pipeline. Limitations. This is a reading of licence text, not legal advice; the Inria licence says the software is still being registered. Other components (COLMAP, viewers, datasets) have their own terms. 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