So you fine-tuned a model, ran some abliteration passes, maybe merged a few LoRAs together, and now you want to publish it. Cool. But did you check the license on every upstream model you touched? I've been watching the open-weight AI community long enough to see this pattern repeat itself: someone publishes a derivative model, strips out the attribution, slaps on a different license, and acts surprised when the community notices. It happened again recently in the LocalLLaMA community, and honestly, it keeps happening because people treat model weights like they're somehow exempt from software licensing rules. They're not. Why This Keeps Happening The root cause is a combination of two things: the AI model ecosystem moves fast, and most people publishing derivative models have never had to think about license compliance before. When you git clone a repo and start modifying code, most developers instinctively know to check the LICENSE file.…