Minimum distinction per exact model artifact| Layer | Required evidence |
|---|
| 1 | Code / implementation license |
| 2 | Exact pretrained weight / checkpoint license |
| 3 | Upstream backbone / teacher weight license, when applicable |
| 4 | External or pretraining resource provenance and relevant terms |
| 5 | Competition eligibility |
Preserve obligations
- copyright and attribution
- LICENSE and NOTICE files
- modification notices
- source or copyleft obligations
- checkpoint/source provenance
- exact artifact hash
- competition-required documentation
Evidence boundaries
- A repository code license does not automatically cover pretrained checkpoints.
- A publicly downloadable checkpoint is not automatically open-source licensed.
- Missing evidence is not an eligibility ruling.