This is why we moved. When we came to productionisation ultralytics wanted $$$
This is totally fake. There are a lot of different YOLO versions, each with a different licence.
This article is a total scam, it should be removed.
Read the first comment. https://www.reddit.com/r/computervision/comments/1gxce90/yol...
Even if this is not the case, that doesn’t mean the article is a ”total scam”.
Your camera will be very different from the images the models have been trained on, so you'll have to do fine tuning. So the only thing that matters is this phase.
Plus, there are models that run device, on servers etc.