docs: fix LICENSE copyright holder and add Projects Based on OpenWAM - #34
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- Replace the leftover template copyright line in LICENSE with "Copyright 2026 OpenWAM Official Team". - Add a "Projects Based on OpenWAM" section to the README, starting with LD4WAM.
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Approving — docs-only, and I verified both claims against the sources rather than taking them on trust.
LICENSE. Copyright 2018-2021 William Falcon is PyTorch Lightning's line, and it really is a copy-paste artifact rather than an attribution we are obliged to keep: I grepped the whole tree and there is no Lightning- or Falcon-derived code. The single hit for "lightning" is the string literal "Qwen-Image-Lightning" in openwam/model/video_backbone/wan/shared/diffusion/flow_match.py, a scheduler template name. Genuine third-party provenance is tracked per file and is untouched here — the Meta/NVIDIA headers under vjepa21_src/ and _vendor/ stay intact — so Apache-2.0 §4(c) isn't implicated. Corroborating this: the downstream fork at LD4WAM/WDAM/LICENSE already replaced the same line with Copyright (c) OpenWAM Team., so it was read as an artifact there too. Only that one line changes; the license body is otherwise byte-identical.
One optional nit: this uses "OpenWAM Official Team" while the downstream NOTICE credits "OpenWAM Team". Since this line names the copyright-holding entity, it is worth settling once which spelling is canonical — easier now than after it propagates further.
README. Both links resolve and the description matches what they say:
arxiv.org/abs/2608.22403— title matches verbatim, submitted 2026-08-23.github.com/stubborn111/LD4WAM— real repository, created 2026-08-21, actively pushed.- The "on top of the OpenWAM framework" claim is mutual rather than asserted only here: LD4WAM's README states that
WDAM/"is built on OpenWAM", and that directory ships aLICENSEplus aNOTICEcrediting the OpenWAM Team under Apache-2.0, so the downstream is compliant with our terms. - The Wan2.2 video DiT / latent-dynamics expert / action expert wording and the RoboTwin 2.0 evaluation both match their README.
Placement is as described (after OpenWAM Usage Guidance, before Star History), the heading level is consistent with its siblings, and the README has no table of contents that would need updating.
For the record, since a "Projects Based on" list tends to raise conflict-of-interest questions later: the author is a co-author on both the LD4WAM paper and the OpenWAM citation, so this is an internal addition rather than an outside link drop. No objection from me — noting only that it was checked.
Optional and non-blocking: "feel free to open a PR to add your project here" leaves the bar for inclusion unstated. A short criterion — public code plus a paper or technical report, and a demonstrable dependency on OpenWAM — would save some back-and-forth once the list grows.
Summary
Copyright 2018-2021 William Falcon(left over from the file the Apache-2.0 text was copied from). Replaced withCopyright 2026 OpenWAM Official Team. No other change to the license text.Docs-only change, no code touched.