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Technical Meeting — Licensing Questions

Preserve the focused license questions that may affect later maximum-tier candidates without blocking the primary RTX4090 competition path.

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Questions for the meeting

  • Must the competition's open-source license be OSI-approved, or can a custom model license qualify when it explicitly permits modification and commercial use?
  • Are PML 1.0 pretrained weights, including RF-DETR XL and 2XL, eligible?
  • Are DINOv3-licensed weights allowed as a backbone or training-only teacher when the submitted student is a different architecture?
  • Does an official checkpoint from an MIT- or Apache-2.0 project satisfy the requirement when the checkpoint has no separate weight-license statement?

Answers may affect

  • DEIM-D-FINE-X
  • RT-DETRv4-X
  • DEIMv2-X
  • RF-DETR-2XL