Remove all AGPL licensed YOLO references from Frigate #10716
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I have been made aware by Ultralytics that Frigate is in violation of the AGPL-3.0 license because it is MIT licensed.
Some public discussion unrelated to Frigate is here.
This project cannot include any reference to models, code, or content that are AGPL-3.0 licensed from Ultralytics. In my understanding, this even includes novel code written to interface with their models that does not utilize any source code published by Ultralytics. Their position is that the models are not considered an output, but rather an extension of the source code published under AGPL-3.0.
At this time, I am not interested in changing the license to AGPL-3.0. Unfortunately, I believe this means that Frigate will never be able to support Ultralytics models published under this license even if I was to obtain an Enterprise License. This pains me as I am obviously a big fan of open source projects with a business model that enables them to be self sustaining.