AlexeyAB/darknet
YOLOv4 / Scaled-YOLOv4 / YOLO - Neural Networks for Object Detection (Windows and Linux version of Darknet )
Recommended between 2025-11-22 and 2025-11-22. Last pushed 2025-12-15.
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“My preferred fork by AlexeyAB is under an equally permissive license [3].”
— bArray, 2025-11-22 · strong recommendation · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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…ics. All YOLO code and weights are released under the AGPL-3.0 license. The original author of YOLO and the Darknet framework [1] issued the code under pretty much every license you wish to use [2]. My preferred fork by AlexeyAB is under an equally permissive license [3]. Ultralytics then created their own model under the AGPL-3.0 license [4], which probably would never stand up in a court as they have the model from the likes of YOLOv3 in their source [5]. This entire article is flawed anyway, because they don't state which YOLOv11 model they are using or compare the accuracy. They appear to have just taken the pre-trained models and assumed it's apples-to-apples. They could have at leas…
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