Is this available for free commercial use?

[Kartikey Porwal]

Hi team, Appreciations for offering production ready pose estimation!

I understand that you have released this project under Apache License 2.0 which means that this project can be used in commercial projects for free.

Also, you have shared the license - Apache License 2.0 of Model Weights and Model Code which means, that project can also be used in commercial projects for free.

Recently, I was reading license of OpenPose and found out that they don't offer commercial license for free.

According to CMU's OpenPose License, we can't use their pretrained model which follows the same license as their code, this is the issue, I'm referring to.

Since TF Implementation of OpenPose didn't use code of the CMU's OpenPose but they have used CMU's Caffe Model and converted it to Tensorflow Model, I think this project also uses the same tensorflow model. This issue points out this.

Since this project and TF Implementation of OpenPose is a derivative of CMU's OpenPose work as both are using CMU's pretrained model, so it's owned by CMU only based on the license of openpose. Could you look this issue from OpenPose repo for more detail?

There are several implementations of OpenPose using Tensorflow and PyTorch and nearly all of these offer license for free commercial usage. But every implementation is automatically CMU's property only as per their license and licensed under theirs Caffe implementation of OpenPose only.

Does that mean, this or any other implementation of Openpose or using their pretrained model in any form can't be used commercially for free!

Do you think this project along with pretrained model can be used commercially for free? What are your views in this?

Please feel free to correct me, if I am wrong somewhere.

Thanks