How to Avoid License Violations When Publishing Derivative AI Models

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 hones