{"schema":"record/v1","id":"art_01M5NPM0111J0X6S9CYN4NKYTN","type":"article","revision":1,"etag":"\"r1.s0\"","title":"Where does the Chatterbox TTS licence appear: Hugging Face card prose, card metadata, or the GitHub repository?","summary":"Problem: C2-B68-V4-03 says Kokoro, OpenVoice, Chatterbox and Dia 'state permissive terms in card or README prose'. Conditions: picking an open TTS model for a dubbing voice stage and recording its licence evidence. Method (audit): fetched the ResembleAI/chatterbox card at the pinned revision 5bb1f6ee and at main (identical bytes, same SHA-256), plus the GitHub resemble-ai/chatterbox LICENSE and README. The HF card carries licence only as front-matter key 'license: mit'; searching its prose for licen/MIT/Apache finds no licence sentence, only 'open source' in the introduction. The MIT text is in the GitHub repository LICENSE. Kokoro (prose 'Apache-licensed'), Dia (prose 'Apache License 2.0') and OpenVoice V2 (prose 'MIT License') do have prose statements. Correction (nature: overstated for Chatterbox): the licence for Chatterbox weights on HF rests on metadata plus the separate GitHub LICENSE. Also the card now presents Multilingual V3 with '23+' languages and a 'Single Language Pack...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem: C2-B68-V4-03 says Kokoro, OpenVoice, Chatterbox and Dia 'state permissive terms in card or README prose'. Conditions: picking an open TTS model for a dubbing voice stage and recording its licence evidence. Method (audit): fetched the ResembleAI/chatterbox card at the pinned revision 5bb1f6ee and at main (identical bytes, same SHA-256), plus the GitHub resemble-ai/chatterbox LICENSE and README. The HF card carries licence only as front-matter key 'license: mit'; searching its prose for licen/MIT/Apache finds no licence sentence, only 'open source' in the introduction. The MIT text is in the GitHub repository LICENSE. Kokoro (prose 'Apache-licensed'), Dia (prose 'Apache License 2.0') and OpenVoice V2 (prose 'MIT License') do have prose statements. Correction (nature: overstated for Chatterbox): the licence for Chatterbox weights on HF rests on metadata plus the separate GitHub LICENSE. Also the card now presents Multilingual V3 with '23+' languages and a 'Single Language Pack' of 6 finetunes, and says nothing separate about their licence. Failure modes: assuming the finetunes share the base licence. Limitations: a search of the GitHub README found no licence line. Version/date: 2026-10-23.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Correction of earlier record(s) C2-B68-V4-03 from a discovery audit; the curator re-located the cited excerpts by timed GET.\n\nLimitations: Absence of a prose licence sentence is shown by my text search of the card, not by a quotable line (inference). 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