docs: add LTX-2.5 bundle card and licenses

README.md

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+---
+license: other
+license_name: ltx-2-community-license-agreement
+license_link: https://github.com/Lightricks/LTX-2/blob/v1.2.0/LICENSE.md
+base_model:
+- Lightricks/LTX-2.5
+- google/gemma-4-12B-it
+library_name: mlx
+pipeline_tag: text-to-video
+tags:
+- mlx
+- candle
+- apple-silicon
+- cuda
+- ltx-2
+- ltx-video
+- text-to-video
+- image-to-video
+- audio-video-generation
+---
+
+# LTX-2.5 — turnkey SceneWorks MLX and Candle bundle
+
+This is the pinned, token-free model bundle used by [SceneWorks](https://github.com/SceneWorks/SceneWorks) for native LTX-2.5 generation. It contains the complete split LTX-2.5 pipeline at q4, q8, and bf16, both distilled and guided dev transformers, the shipped distilled rank-450 adapter, and the separately staged stock Gemma 4 prompt enhancer. A fresh SceneWorks install downloads these ready-to-run files; no in-app conversion or access to the gated source repositories is required.
+
+## Repository layout
+
+| path | contents |
+|---|---|
+| `distilled/q4/`, `distilled/q8/`, `distilled/bf16/` | Complete distilled LTX-2.5 tier: transformer, self-contained Gemma 4 text encoder, connector, Conv VAE, DiffVAE, spatial and temporal upsamplers, duration head, audio VAE, vocoder, and split manifests. |
+| `dev/q4/`, `dev/q8/`, `dev/bf16/` | The same complete tier with the guided 30-step dev transformer. Distilled remains the SceneWorks default. |
+| `distilled_lora/` | Upstream LTX-2.5 distilled LoRA, with rank and alpha read from its safetensors metadata. |
+| `enhancer/` | Stock `google/gemma-4-12B-it` snapshot used only for opt-in T2V/I2V prompt enhancement. The tier-local self-contained text encoder remains the generation encoder. |
+| `licenses/` | LTX-2.x Community License Agreement (August 11, 2026), Apache License 2.0, the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy, and provenance notice. |
+
+Each tier is an indivisible pipeline contract: q4/q8/bf16 selects the matching representation for every quantizable segment. The tier's `split_model.json` records component identities and quantization; SceneWorks rejects incomplete or mismatched layouts.
+
+## Provenance and modifications
+
+- LTX-2.5 components and the distilled LoRA derive from [Lightricks/LTX-2.5](https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2.5) and the [LTX-2 v1.2.0 reference](https://github.com/Lightricks/LTX-2/tree/v1.2.0). SceneWorks converted and, where selected, quantized the components into the native split MLX/Candle layout; generative model behavior was not fine-tuned.
+- The dev transformer derives from the LTX-2.5 dev checkpoint and is packed through the same converter into q4/q8/bf16.
+- `enhancer/` mirrors the stock [google/gemma-4-12B-it](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it) snapshot for offline-only prompt enhancement.
+- Hugging Face `extra_gated_*` repository metadata is intentionally absent. Removing the hosting-service click-through does not alter any license or use restriction included here.
+
+## Licenses
+
+This repository contains components governed by separate terms:
+
+- LTX-2.5 weights, derivatives, and the distilled adapter: [LTX-2.x Community License Agreement](licenses/LTX-2-Community-License.txt), license date August 11, 2026. The agreement includes use restrictions and commercial licensing conditions and must travel with redistributed derivatives.
+- Gemma 4 text-encoder/enhancer weights: [Apache License 2.0](licenses/Apache-2.0.txt), with Google's [Gemma Prohibited Use Policy](licenses/Gemma-Prohibited-Use-Policy.txt) also reproduced here.
+- [NOTICE](licenses/NOTICE.txt) records the exact sourcing and the material difference from the Gemma 1–3 Terms of Use used by the older LTX-2.3 bundle.
+
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licenses/Gemma-Prohibited-Use-Policy.txt

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+Gemma Prohibited Use Policy
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+
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+it to the bundled Gemma-4-12B text encoder as well: it continues to sit
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licenses/LTX-2-Community-License.txt

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+LTX-2.x Community License Agreement
+
+License date: August 11, 2026
+
+By downloading, using, accessing or distributing any portion or element of LTX-2.x, you agree that you have read and accepted to be bound by this Agreement.
+
+1. Definitions.
+
+1.1 “Agreement” means the terms and conditions for this LTX-2.x Community License Agreement and the exhibits, attachments, and Complementary Materials, as specified in this document.
+
+1.2 “Complementary Materials” means the accompanying documentation, tutorials, examples, configuration files and other materials made available by Licensor together with the LTX-2.x model weights and parameters, in each case as distributed by Licensor.
+
+1.3 “Control” means the direct or indirect ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting securities or other ownership interests, or the power to direct the management and policies of such Entity through voting rights, contract, or otherwise.
+
+1.4 “Data” means a collection of information and/or content extracted from the dataset used with LTX-2.x, including to train, pretrain, or otherwise evaluate LTX-2.x. The Data is not licensed under this Agreement.
+
+1.5 “Derivatives of LTX-2.x” means all modifications to LTX-2.x, works based on LTX-2.x, or any other model which is created or initialized by transfer of patterns of the weights, parameters, activations or output of LTX-2.x, to the other model, in order to cause the other model to perform similarly to LTX-2.x, including – but not limited to - distillation methods entailing the use of intermediate data representations or methods based on the generation of synthetic data by LTX-2.x for training the other model. For clarity, Derivatives of LTX-2.x include: (i) any fine-tuned or adapted weights, parameters, or checkpoints derived from LTX-2.x; (ii) derivative model architectures that incorporate or are based upon LTX-2.x’s architecture; and (iii) any modified or extended versions of the Complementary Materials.
+
+1.6 “Entity” means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other legal entity. For purposes of this Agreement, an Entity shall be deemed to include, on an aggregative basis, all subsidiaries, affiliates, and other companies under common Control with such Entity. When determining whether an Entity meets any threshold under this Agreement (including revenue thresholds in Section 2.1), all subsidiaries, affiliates, and companies under common Control shall be considered collectively.
+
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+1.8 “Licensor” or “LTX” means the owner that is granting the license under this Agreement. For the purposes of this Agreement, the Licensor is Lightricks Ltd.
+
+1.9 “LTX-2.x” means the large generative models, text/image/video/audio/3D generation models, and multimodal large language models and their software and algorithms, including trained model weights, parameters (including optimizer states), machine-learning model code, inference-enabling code, training-enabling code, fine-tuning enabling code, accompanying source code, scripts, and all other elements of the foregoing distributed and made publicly available by LTX (including, for example, at https://github.com/Lightricks/LTX-2 (https://github.com/Lightricks/LTX-2)). This license is applicable to all LTX-2.5 versions released since August 11, 2026, and all future releases of LTX-2.x under this license.
+
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+
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+
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+2.2 Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary in this Agreement, a Commercial Entity may download and use LTX-2.x and Derivatives of LTX-2.x without obtaining the Commercial Use Agreement solely for a Non-Commercial Purpose. “Non-Commercial Purpose” means any of the following uses, but only so far as such Commercial Entity does not receive any direct or indirect payment arising from the use of LTX-2.x or Derivatives of LTX-2.x: (i) use by an individual acting in a personal capacity for research, experimentation, learning, private study, hobby or recreational projects, or personal entertainment, in each case where such use is not connected, directly or indirectly, to any commercial activity, business operation, or the performance of duties for an employer or any other Entity; and (ii) use by a Commercial Entity for testing, evaluation, or non-commercial research and development in a non-production or development environment. For clarity, use (a) for revenue-generating activity in any manner, whether direct or indirect, (b) in direct interactions with or that has impact on end users, or (c) to train, fine-tune, or distill any model (including any Derivative of LTX-2.x) for commercial use, in each case, is not a Non-Commercial Purpose and requires all Commercial Entities to obtain a paid license under the Commercial Use Agreement prior to such use. For the avoidance of doubt, the permission granted under this Section 2.2 is a limited right of use only and does not convey or transfer any ownership right, title, or interest in or to LTX-2.x or any Derivatives of LTX-2.x, and all Derivatives of LTX-2.x created or used pursuant to this Section 2.2 remain subject to the terms of this Agreement, including Section 1.5.
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+
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+
+3.6 You may add your own copyright statement to your modifications and may provide additional license terms and conditions - respecting Section 3.1 - for use, reproduction, or distribution of your modifications, or for any such Derivatives of LTX-2.x as a whole, provided your use, reproduction, and distribution of LTX-2.x otherwise complies with the conditions stated in this Agreement, and you provide a complete copy of this Agreement with any such use, reproduction and distribution of LTX-2.x and any Derivatives thereof; provided that any such additional terms shall be additive only and shall not derogate from, conflict with, waive, or purport to modify any term of this Agreement, and this Agreement shall govern in the event of any conflict.
+
+4. Use-based restrictions. The restrictions set forth in Attachment A are considered Use-based restrictions. Therefore, you cannot use LTX-2.x and the Derivatives of LTX-2.x in violation of the specified restricted uses. You may use LTX-2.x subject to this Agreement, only for lawful purposes and in accordance with the Agreement. “Use” may include creating any content with, fine-tuning, updating, running, training, evaluating and/or re-parametrizing LTX-2.x. You shall require all of your users who use LTX-2.x or a Derivative of LTX-2.x to comply with the terms of this Section 4.
+
+5. The Output You Generate. Except as set forth herein, Licensor claims no rights in the Output you generate using LTX-2.x. You are accountable for input you insert into LTX-2.x, the Output you generate and its subsequent uses. No use of the Output can contravene any provision as stated in the Agreement.
+
+6. Updates and Runtime Restrictions; AI Regulations. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Licensor reserves the right to restrict (remotely or otherwise) usage of LTX-2.x in violation of this Agreement, update LTX-2.x through electronic means, or modify the Output of LTX-2.x based on updates. You shall undertake reasonable efforts to use the latest version of LTX-2.x. Any use of the non-current version of LTX-2.x is done solely at your risk. To the extent applicable to you, you shall comply with all laws and regulations governing artificial intelligence that apply to your use, deployment, or distribution of LTX-2.x, Derivatives of LTX-2.x, or Outputs, including Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the “EU AI Act”) and the California AI Transparency Act (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757 et seq.), each as amended from time to time and any other applicable laws, regulations, or binding guidance relating to artificial intelligence, transparency, content provenance, or synthetic media, together with any documentation made available by Licensor regarding compliance with the same (collectively, “AI Regulations”). You shall maintain (including within any application or service through which LTX-2.x, any Derivative of LTX-2.x, or any Output is made available), and shall not remove, disable, alter, or circumvent, any safety or security measures, disclosures, metadata, watermarking, content provenance, latent disclosure, or other transparency features or functionalities included or embedded within LTX-2.x or any Derivative of LTX-2.x, or applied to any Output, in furtherance of AI Regulations, including any capability of LTX-2.x to include latent disclosures in Outputs, and you shall include equivalent obligations in any agreement governing your distribution of LTX-2.x or any Derivative of LTX-2.x. You are solely responsible for any transparency, disclosure, marking, or labeling obligations applicable to you under AI Regulations as a provider or deployer of LTX-2.x, any Derivative of LTX-2.x, or any system incorporating any of the foregoing, including any obligation to disclose that content is artificially generated or manipulated. If Licensor knows or reasonably believes that you have modified LTX-2.x or any Derivative of LTX-2.x such that it is no longer capable of including any disclosure required by AI Regulations in Outputs, or that you have otherwise removed, disabled, or circumvented any feature or functionality described in this Section, Licensor may in its sole discretion revoke the license granted under this Agreement effective immediately upon notice to you, and upon such revocation you shall immediately cease all use of LTX-2.x and Derivatives of LTX-2.x. Licensor makes no representation or warranty that LTX-2.x, any Derivative of LTX-2.x, or any Output complies with any AI Regulations applicable to your specific use case or deployment, and you are solely responsible for determining the applicability of, and ensuring your compliance with, all AI Regulations. You shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Licensor and its affiliates from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your use, deployment, distribution, or modification of LTX-2.x, any Derivative of LTX-2.x, or any Output in violation of, or your other failure to comply with, any AI Regulations.
+
+For purposes of the EU AI Act, Licensor makes LTX-2.x openly available under this community license and intends that LTX-2.x be treated as a free and open-source general purpose AI model within the meaning of Article 53(2) of the EU AI Act. You acknowledge and agree that (a) to the extent the free and open source derogations under Article 53(2) of the EU AI Act apply, Licensor’s obligations under the EU AI Act with respect to LTX-2.x are limited to those applicable to providers of free and open source general purpose AI models (it being acknowledged that such derogations do not extend to the obligations under Article 53(1)(c) and (d)), (b) you acknowledge that LTX-2.x is not intended to be integrated into a high risk AI system, and shall be fully and solely responsible for any obligation resulting from such integration, (c) if you integrate LTX-2.x or any Derivative of LTX-2.x into a high-risk AI system you shall be solely responsible for all provider obligations that would otherwise apply to Licensor under the EU AI Act, and (d) you shall not take any action, or omit to take any action, that would cause Licensor to lose the benefit of the free and open source derogations under the EU AI Act, and you shall indemnify and hold Licensor harmless from any liability, costs, or expenses arising from your breach of this Section.
+
+7. Export Controls and Sanctions Compliance. You acknowledge that LTX-2.x, Derivatives of LTX-2.x may be subject to export control laws and regulations, including but not limited to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations and sanctions programs administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). You represent and warrant that you and any users of LTX-2.x are not (i) located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in any country or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions; (ii) identified on any U.S. government restricted party list, including the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List; or (iii) otherwise prohibited from receiving LTX-2.x under applicable law. You shall not export, re-export, or transfer LTX-2.x, directly or indirectly, in violation of any applicable export control or sanctions laws or regulations. You agree to comply with all applicable trade control laws and shall indemnify and hold Licensor harmless from any claims arising from your failure to comply with such laws.
+
+8. Trademarks; Reservation of Rights. Nothing in this Agreement permits you to make use of Licensor’s trademarks, trade names, logos or to otherwise suggest endorsement or misrepresent the relationship between the parties; and any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by the Licensor. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, Licensor does not grant, directly or by implication, estoppel, statute or otherwise, any right or license in its, or its affiliates’, intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights. For avoidance of doubt, all intellectual property rights in Derivatives of LTX-2.x shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement, and you acquire no right, title, or interest in or to LTX-2.x itself, which is and remains the exclusive property of Licensor. You shall not assert any ownership or other right in LTX-2.x or any Derivative of LTX-2.x in any manner that restricts, encumbers, or is inconsistent with the rights retained by Licensor or granted to other licensees under this Agreement.
+
+9. Disclaimer of Warranty. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides LTX-2.x on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing LTX-2.x and Derivatives of LTX-2.x and assume any risks associated with your exercise of permissions under this Agreement.
+
+10. Limitation of Liability. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall Licensor be liable to you or any other individual or Entity for damages, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character arising as a result of this Agreement or out of the use of, or inability to use LTX-2.x or any Derivative of LTX-2.x (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if Licensor has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
+
+11. Accepting Warranty or Additional Liability. While redistributing LTX-2.x and Derivatives of LTX-2.x, you may, provided you do not violate the terms of this Agreement, choose to offer and charge a fee for, acceptance of support, warranty, indemnity, or other liability obligations. However, in accepting such obligations, you may act only on your own behalf and on your sole responsibility, not on behalf of Licensor, and only if you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold Licensor harmless for any liability incurred by, or claims asserted against Licensor, by reason of your accepting any such warranty or additional liability.
+
+12. Governing Law. This Agreement and all relations, disputes, claims and other matters arising hereunder (including non-contractual disputes or claims) will be governed exclusively by, and construed exclusively in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York and applicable U.S. federal law. To the extent permitted by law, choice of laws rules and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods will not apply. The prevailing party in any claim or dispute between the parties under this Agreement will be entitled to reimbursement of its reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs.
+
+13. Term and Termination. This Agreement is effective upon your acceptance and continues until terminated. Licensor may terminate this Agreement immediately upon written notice to you if you breach any provision of this Agreement, including but not limited to violations of the use restrictions in Attachment A or unauthorized commercial use. This Agreement also terminates immediately and automatically, without notice, upon any material breach of this Agreement, including any use in violation of applicable AI Regulations or any unauthorized commercial use of LTX-2.x or Derivatives of LTX-2.x by a Commercial Entity. Upon termination: (a) all rights granted to you under this Agreement will immediately cease; (b) you must immediately cease all use of LTX-2.x and Derivatives of LTX-2.x; (c) you must delete or destroy all copies of LTX-2.x and Derivatives of LTX-2.x in your possession or control; and (d) you must notify any third parties to whom you distributed LTX-2.x or Derivatives of LTX-2.x of the termination. Sections 2, 3, 4, 6-16 and Attachment A shall survive termination of this Agreement. Termination does not relieve you of any obligations incurred prior to termination, including payment obligations under Section 2 and adhering to the restrictions under Section 3. In addition, if You commence a lawsuit or other proceedings (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) against Licensor or any person or entity alleging that LTX-2.x or any Output, or any portion of any of the foregoing, infringe any intellectual property or other right owned or licensable by you, then all licenses granted to you under this Agreement shall terminate as of the date such lawsuit or other proceeding is filed.
+
+14. Disputes and Arbitration; Waiver of Jury Trial; Class Action Waiver. IF YOU ARE NOT ACTING AS A CONSUMER UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, YOU HEREBY WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY, TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION (INCLUDING IN ARBITRATION), OR TO COMBINE INDIVIDUAL PROCEEDINGS IN COURT OR IN ARBITRATION WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF ALL PARTIES. All disputes arising in connection with this Agreement shall be finally settled by arbitration under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC Rules”), by one (1) arbitrator appointed in accordance with the ICC Rules. The seat of arbitration shall be New York, NY, USA, and the proceedings shall be conducted in English. The arbitrator shall be empowered to grant any relief that a court could grant. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered by any court having jurisdiction thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in respect of any actual or threatened breach of the license restrictions under this Agreement (including Attachment A and the Acceptable Use Policy) or any actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of Licensor’s intellectual property rights, in the state or federal courts located in the County of New York, State of New York, and each party irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction of, and venue in, such courts for that limited purpose. The foregoing waivers do not apply to, and are not enforceable against, any licensee acting as a consumer under the mandatory consumer-protection laws of its jurisdiction of residence (including, without limitation, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the State of California), and nothing in this Agreement limits any rights under such laws that cannot be waived or limited by contract. If any waiver in this Section is held invalid or unenforceable as to a particular licensee or dispute, such waiver shall be severed to that extent only and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this Section.
+
+15. In the event of any exception to the application of binding arbitration, all disputes, claims, and other matters arising hereunder shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the County of New York, State of New York. You waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens with respect to venue and jurisdiction in such courts, and consent to their exclusive jurisdiction and venue.
+
+16. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall be unaffected thereby and remain valid as if such provision had not been set forth herein.
+
+END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
+
+Attachment A
+
+Use Restrictions
+
+When using the Outputs, LTX-2.x and any Derivatives thereof, you agree to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy (https://static.lightricks.com/legal/ltx-acceptable-use-policy.pdf) which is hereby incorporated into and made part of this Agreement by reference. Licensor may update it from time to time, and the version in effect at the time of your use governs; continued use after an update constitutes acceptance. Licensor shall post each version of the Acceptable Use Policy with its effective date, and no update shall apply retroactively to use occurring before that effective date. In addition, you agree not to use the Outputs, LTX-2.x or its Derivatives in any of the following ways:
+
+1) In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation;
+
+2) For the purpose of exploiting, Harming or attempting to exploit or Harm minors in any way;
+
+3) Knowingly generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the intent to deceive, defraud, or otherwise unlawfully Harm others;
+
+4) To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to Harm an individual;
+
+5) To generate or disseminate information and/or content (e.g. images, code, posts, articles), and place the information and/or content in any context (e.g. bot generating tweets) without expressly and intelligibly disclaiming that the information and/or content is machine generated;
+
+6) To defame others, or to engage in the unlawful harassment of others;
+
+7) To impersonate or attempt to impersonate (e.g. deepfakes) others without their consent;
+
+8) For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation;
+
+9) For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or Harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics;
+
+10) To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological Harm;
+
+11) For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories;
+
+12) To provide medical advice and medical results interpretation;
+
+13) To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling, drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and arbitrarily-targeted use);
+
+14) To generate and/or disseminate malware (including – but not limited to – ransomware) or any other content to be used for the purpose of harming electronic systems;
+
+15) To engage in, promote, incite, or facilitate discrimination or other unlawful or harmful conduct in the provision of employment, employment benefits, credit, housing, or other essential goods and services;
+
+16) To engage in, promote, incite, or facilitate the harassment, abuse, threatening, or bullying of individuals or groups of individuals;
+
+17) For military, warfare, nuclear industries or applications, weapons development, or any use in connection with activities that may cause death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage;
+
+18) For commercial use only: To train, improve, or fine-tune any other machine learning model, artificial intelligence system, or competing model, except for Derivatives of LTX-2.x as expressly permitted under this Agreement;
+
+19) To circumvent, disable, or interfere with any technical limitations, safety features, content filters, watermarking, content provenance or latent disclosure functionalities, or use restrictions implemented in LTX-2.x by Licensor;
+
+20) To use LTX-2.x or Derivatives of LTX-2.x in any product, service, or application that directly competes with Licensor’s commercial products or services, or is designed to replace or substitute Licensor’s offerings in the market, without obtaining a separate commercial license from Licensor.

licenses/NOTICE.txt

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+LTX-2.5 + Gemma-4-12B — license provenance and sourcing notice (sc-18785)
+==========================================================================
+
+This directory documents the license terms that apply to the rehosted
+SceneWorks/ltx-2.5-mlx bundle: the LTX-2.5 video weights (Lightricks) plus
+the Gemma-4-12B text encoder (Google). SceneWorks does not modify these
+weights; the terms below govern the weights, not SceneWorks' own AGPL-3.0
+source code.
+
+LTX-2.x Community License Agreement
+------------------------------------
+Every Lightricks/LTX-2.5 checkpoint embeds this license verbatim in its
+safetensors `__metadata__.license` field, headed "LTX-2.x Community License
+Agreement — License date: August 11, 2026". Because Lightricks/LTX-2.5 is a
+gated Hugging Face repo and no HF token is configured on this machine, the
+text in LTX-2-Community-License.txt was instead sourced from two independent
+PUBLIC locations that agree with each other and with the model card:
+
+  1. The public model card at https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2.5
+     (readable without authentication despite the weights being gated)
+     tags `license: ltx-2-community-license-agreement` and links to
+     https://github.com/Lightricks/LTX-2/blob/main/LICENSE.md.
+  2. The public github.com/Lightricks/LTX-2 repository, tag v1.2.0
+     (commit d151147788a9284cca791edc6ce898007e727fe6, verified via
+     `GET /repos/Lightricks/LTX-2/git/refs/tags/v1.2.0` — the tag resolves
+     to that exact commit), file LICENSE.md. Fetched
+     2026-08-18 from
+     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lightricks/LTX-2/v1.2.0/LICENSE.md.
+     Its heading is "License date: August 11, 2026", matching the model
+     card and the story's measured metadata.
+
+LTX-2-Community-License.txt reproduces that text with only Markdown
+formatting characters (`**`, `>`, `[text](url)`) stripped for plain-text
+display in the About screen's `<pre>` block; no wording was changed.
+
+Diff against LTX-2.3's bundled license (required by sc-18785)
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+LTX-2.3's bundled text (../ltx-2.3/LTX-2-Community-License.txt) is headed
+"License date: January 5, 2026" — a different, earlier version. Comparing
+the two verbatim texts: they are NOT the same agreement reworded for a new
+date. The August 11, 2026 (LTX-2.5) text differs from the January 5, 2026
+(LTX-2.3) text in substance, not just date:
+
+  - New Section 3.5 "Transfer of Derivatives" — an entirely new clause
+    requiring downstream transferees of a Derivative (including LoRA
+    adapters) to independently obtain a paid license if they are a
+    Commercial Entity, regardless of who created the Derivative. LTX-2.3's
+    Section 3 has no equivalent.
+  - Section 6 "Updates and Runtime Restrictions" is retitled "Updates and
+    Runtime Restrictions; AI Regulations" and gains ~2 paragraphs of new
+    obligations: compliance with the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689)
+    and the California AI Transparency Act, a duty to preserve
+    watermarking/content-provenance/latent-disclosure features, an
+    indemnification clause for AI-regulation violations, and a new
+    paragraph on the EU AI Act Article 53(2) free/open-source derogation.
+    LTX-2.3's Section 6 is four sentences with none of this.
+  - Section 14 "Disputes and Arbitration" gains an explicit jury-trial /
+    class-action waiver heading and a new consumer-protection carve-out
+    (EU/UK/California mandatory consumer law is preserved), splitting what
+    was LTX-2.3's single Section 14/15 into three numbered
+    sections (14, 15, 16) in the 2.5 text.
+  - Both versions already share the same $10,000,000 annual-revenue
+    Commercial Entity threshold (Section 2.1) and the same 20-item
+    Attachment A use restrictions (items 19-20, on circumventing technical
+    limitations and on competing products, are present in BOTH — this was
+    not new to 2.5).
+
+Conclusion: the two licenses are meaningfully different documents, not a
+reused/re-dated copy. Both are shipped as separate, complete texts (this
+directory for 2.5, ../ltx-2.3/ for 2.3) rather than deduplicating one into
+the other.
+
+Gemma 4 text encoder — NOT the same license family as LTX-2.3's Gemma 3
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+LTX-2.3 bundles a Gemma-3-12B-IT text encoder under Google's restrictive
+Gemma Terms of Use (see ../ltx-2.3/Gemma-Terms.txt). The story description
+for this ticket assumed LTX-2.5's Gemma-4-12B encoder carries the same
+restrictive terms. Verified directly against Google's own pages (fetched
+2026-08-18, two independent URLs, cross-checked against raw HTML — not just
+a page summary) that assumption is WRONG for Gemma 4:
+
+  - https://ai.google.dev/gemma/terms (the page governing Gemma 1/1.1/2/3/3n)
+    itself states: "For Gemma 4 terms, see the Gemma 4 license" and links to
+    https://ai.google.dev/gemma/apache_2.
+  - https://ai.google.dev/gemma/apache_2 is titled "Apache License 2.0" and
+    contains the complete, unmodified Apache License 2.0 text — Google
+    licenses Gemma 4 model weights under Apache-2.0, not the Gemma Terms of
+    Use that govern Gemma 1-3.
+  - The separate Gemma Prohibited Use Policy
+    (https://ai.google.dev/gemma/prohibited_use_policy, last modified
+    February 21, 2024, generic across all Gemma releases) still applies to
+    Gemma 4 as an acceptable-use layer on top of Apache-2.0 — Google's own
+    nav places it under the same "Gemma" section regardless of which
+    license (ToU or Apache) a given release uses.
+
+Practical effect: LTX-2.5's Gemma-4-12B component is documented here with
+Apache-2.0.txt (the permissive grant) plus Gemma-Prohibited-Use-Policy.txt
+(the still-applicable use policy) — two documents, not the single
+restrictive Gemma-Terms.txt notice used for 2.3's Gemma 3. This is a
+narrower, more permissive obligation than 2.3 carries, but it is still a
+distinct, tracked notice: Apache-2.0 requires retaining attribution and the
+NOTICE contents on redistribution, and the Prohibited Use Policy is a real,
+enforceable restriction layered on top of that permissive grant.
+
+Degated-mirror plan does not misrepresent the terms
+------------------------------------------------------
+SceneWorks/ltx-2.5-mlx (like SceneWorks/ltx-2.3-mlx before it) strips
+Hugging Face's `extra_gated_*` repo metadata when it rehosts the weights.
+That metadata only drives HF's own click-through acceptance UI (the "Agree
+and access repository" gate); it is not part of the license terms
+themselves, which live in `__metadata__.license` and the model card's
+`license` tag and are reproduced verbatim in this directory. Removing the
+click-through does not remove, weaken, or amend any clause of the LTX-2.x
+Community License Agreement, the Apache-2.0 grant, or the Gemma Prohibited
+Use Policy — all three continue to bind users of the rehosted weights
+exactly as they bind users of the upstream gated repos, and this repo's
+About → Licenses screen is precisely how SceneWorks surfaces that binding
+obligation in place of HF's UI gate.