(Maybe it's wishful thinking. But, precisely. My analogy would be: you can't run Visual C++ for commercial purposes without a valid licence, even though (ignori

(Maybe it's wishful thinking. But, precisely. My analogy would be: you can't run Visual C++ for commercial purposes without a valid licence, even though (ignoring linking against the runtime), the license of a compiler doesn't affect the licence of the output. If weights are copyrightable, then you need permission to copy them into computer memory/run them, just like any application.