arxivcs.SEcs.AI2026-07-22
Don't Trust the Label: License Laundering in AI Supply Chains
James Jewitt, Hao Li, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
AI artifacts move through a multi-platform supply chain, spanning datasets and models on Hugging Face and applications on GitHub. While each artifact carries a license whose obligations should propagate through redistribution, no study has yet measured whether those obligations s…