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Published video-model weights, licences and hardware notes

Open weights come under two kinds of licence

The word open covers two different things in this column. Nine of the 15 families publish under a licence whose text is standard, Apache 2.0 or MIT, cleared once and cleared for good. Five publish under a name belonging to a company. One splits by model size. As of 2026-09-22.

The three licensing shapes behind the word open in this registerNine families publish under a standard permissive licence, Apache 2.0 or MIT, whose terms a reader already knows. Five publish under a licence carrying a company's name. One splits, using the standard licence on the smaller model and a project licence on the larger. The split case is the one that gets missed.A release described as openNine familiesA standard licenceTerms already known,nothing to review.Five familiesA company's own licenceNamed after a company, soeach has to be read.One familySplit by model sizeStandard on the smallerone, a project licence onthe larger.This register records which, and does not interpret any of them
Fig. 1 A standard licence is one nobody has to read. The other two shapes both require somebody to, and only one of them announces that up front.
The licence each published family carries, grouped by the shape of the name on the file. Recorded 2026-09-22.
ItemWhat is publishedDetail
Apache 2.0Seven familiesAllegro, FramePack, LTX-Video, MAGI-1, Mochi 1, Open-Sora, Wan
A company's own nameFive familiestencent-hunyuan-community, skywork-license, stable-video-diffusion-community, stabilityai-ai-community, NVIDIA Open Model License
MITTwo familiesLongCat-Video and Step-Video-T2V
Split by model sizeOne familyCogVideoX: 2B Apache 2.0, 5B a separate project licence

Inclusion rule. Licence names as stated in the vendor's own repository or on the vendor's model card. This register records the name and does not paraphrase terms. Order. By how many families share that licence shape, most first.

1A standard licence is one you do not have to read

Apache 2.0 and MIT are known ground: a reader who has cleared either once has cleared it for every release that carries it. Seven families here use the first and two use the second. A licence named after a company has to be read every time, because nothing about the name tells you what is in it.

That difference is practical rather than moral. Both are published weights, both can be downloaded, and only one of them can be assessed without a lawyer's hour.

2The split case is the one that catches people

Checking the licence on a family's smaller model and assuming it carries to the larger one is a reasonable-looking move that is wrong here. The register keeps licence per model rather than per family for that reason.

It is also a reminder that a repository is not a single artefact. One URL can hold several releases under different terms, and the terms live in the model card rather than the README.

3What this register deliberately does not do

It does not summarise what any licence permits. A one-line paraphrase of a bespoke licence is the sort of helpfulness somebody ends up relying on, and the licence file is one click from every row here.

What it does do is name the licence exactly and date the reading, so that a reader knows whether they are on known ground before they spend any time.

4Running the model without the hardware

Instead of local hardware for “Two kinds of open”, SceneMixer runs hosted models; its guides describe the result:

Wan 3.0 is Alibaba Cloud's video generation model on the Model Studio platform, called through an asynchronous submit-then-poll API, in two tiers: the standard wan3.0-video and the faster wan3.0-video-prime.

SceneMixer, Wan 3.0 for AI Short Drama (2026): Parameters, Reference Limits, Moderation Rules and the 30-Second Take (read 2026-10-13)

In the editor this tier is greyed out for such a segment; pick a Seedance 2.5 or Wan tier.

SceneMixer, Seedance 2.0 (standard tier) — “Can a segment longer than 15 seconds use this tier?” (read 2026-10-13)

5Sources

Repository statements and hosted rates are linked from the model pages and the method page, checked 2026-09-22. Hardware figures are set out on requirements. Nearby: The VRAM ladder, Naming the card, How long a clip.