Thoughts on AudioX Licensing for Maximum Community Impact
Dear AudioX Team,
Congratulations on the impressive research behind AudioX! The unified "Anything-to-Audio" framework using a Diffusion Transformer is a really interesting and powerful approach to multi-modal generation.
I was looking into the project and saw the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. While great for academic use, the NonCommercial restriction does limit its potential integration into the wider ecosystem of tools and applications (both open-source and commercial) where generative AI is flourishing.
We're currently seeing many state-of-the-art generative models, including capable multi-modal audio frameworks like MMAudio (which uses MIT), being released under permissive licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0). This openness really seems to fuel community engagement, innovation, and adoption, allowing research to have the broadest possible impact.
Just wanted to share a community perspective and ask if you might consider aligning AudioX with this trend by adopting a similar permissive open-source license down the line? It feels like a model with AudioX's unique capabilities could become even more influential and widely used if the licensing allowed for that broader integration.
Thanks for sharing your groundbreaking work and for considering this feedback!