- Looks like it is mostly community-driven
- Their submission process is mostly biased towards community uploading third-party research artefacts, though
- Though description format is plain
md, it is mostly geared towards people packaging third-party research artefacts- You MUST upload all of your models / artefacts / datasets to their git-lfs storage
- All in all of this mostly implies between the lines that your models will not be updated / will be hard to maintain
- What is most sinful - if you follow their format entirely, there is no connection between you and your model's users - they will just see ONNX hub repo folders and will never care about you
- No legal problems per se, but I cannot see any motivation for independent companies to share models there - you essentially upload whole packages there and they are gone for good (I believe that links inside of github are not properly indexed, but git-lfs is NOT indexed by web-crawlers for sure)
- In the end, even if you do not care about this sort of thing, and you are 100% altruistic, this git-lfs basically implies that you have to re-upload your updated models on each update, create a PR, etc etc - I am just lazy to do this for each model
Open Vino models
- Well, their docs format are decent
- A bit too much focus, again, on hosting third-party research artefacts and too much belief that all datasets are free and public (and that leaderboards matter)
- The big problem is that they essentially also want you to package something and relinquish all rights to this
- It is also supported by the fact that GPL licenses are NOT allowed
- So, what is my motivation to contribute as an independent company? Well, there is very little