Qwen-Image-2.1 ships 7B weights under a research licence rather than an open-source one

Sources: model card, HN discussion
Summary: The card describes the release as open-source, and the licence field on that same page reads Qwen Research License Agreement, so the weights download while the terms are not the permissive ones the wording implies. Its technical claims are a 7B visual generation component with 32 single-stream DiT layers, mixed-granularity attention with prefix KV cache reuse, native RGBA output, and editing against up to 10 reference images, none of which is independently reproduced here.
Why it matters: Commercial use of these weights turns on the licence text rather than on the announcement, and the two say different things on one page.