# License and attribution

Author: **Christoph Schuhmann**. Organization: **LAION**. Release: 7 October 2026.
LAION's new fine-tuned weights, code and documentation: **CC BY 4.0**, see `LICENSE`.
Please credit Christoph Schuhmann and LAION, link this repository and indicate changes.

OpenAI Whisper's original code and weights retain their MIT notice:
https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE
Hugging Face Transformers is an external Apache-2.0 dependency:
https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/LICENSE
Teacher models and source audio retain their own terms; they are not redistributed here.
Orange's identity teacher card declares CC BY-SA 3.0:
https://huggingface.co/Orange/Speaker-wavLM-id
Orange timbre: https://huggingface.co/Orange/Speaker-wavLM-tbr
The release license is not a grant of rights over upstream datasets or packages.