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The blog post at z.ai/blog/glm-5.1 states "GLM-5.1 is released as open source under the MIT License," and the Hugging Face model cards for GLM-5.1, GLM-5, GLM-5.1-FP8, and GLM-4.7 all carry license: mit in their metadata. However, none of these repositories contain an actual LICENSE file with the MIT license text and copyright notice.

A few specifics:

• No LICENSE file exists in any of the Hugging Face weight repositories (GLM-5.1, GLM-5, GLM-5.1-FP8, GLM-4.7). The only license indication is the YAML frontmatter tag.
• The GitHub code repository (github.com/zai-org/GLM-5) contains an Apache-2.0 license with "Copyright 2026 Zhipu AI," which is a different license from what the weight repos and blog indicate.
• No copyright notice accompanies the MIT designation anywhere. A valid MIT license requires a Copyright (c) line.

Could someone clarify:

1. Are the model weights intended to be MIT-licensed? If so, could a LICENSE file with the full MIT text and copyright notice be added to the Hugging Face repositories?
2. Is the Apache-2.0 license on the GitHub repo intentionally different from the MIT license on the weights, or is one of them an error?

Thanks all!