No commercial use allowed in License?
Concerned about the broadness of this part of the licensing terms:
Does this mean we can only use this model to create or work on products that don't make money? Because any non-free product seems to fall under this problematic definition.
Can't use it for projects that might have entrepreneural potential???, then who will use it.
Might be grounds for DOA :(
it's very reasonable! and should be!!!!
Nothing reasonable about the current license. As it's written right now.... Can't use it for work. Can't use it for projects that might have entrepreneural potential. Can't implement it in any part of a workflow of value that people might pay for.
it's very reasonable! and should be!!!!
Nothing reasonable about the current license. As it's written right now.... Can't use it for work. Can't use it for projects that might have entrepreneural potential. Can't implement it in any part of a workflow of value that people might pay for.
sorry ,I didn't read it yet. I thought might be only commercial.
As it stands now, the license is more like a product demo. Try it out, and if you like it, go ahead and buy it. But since it’s a demo, it would be nice to have fixed, transparent pricing for the commercial license. And then, for startups, some kind of exemption up to a certain revenue threshold.
@rascazzione Based on this license, you cannot use this model in your project (commercial) even to see how it will work...
This is essentially saying only official API can be used for commercial projects. MiniMax please clarify it: Does the license restrict only finetuned versions of the model, or all deployments of this model, or all results generated by the model regardless where it's deployed?
@he or @ryanlee-dev can we have a clarification about generated code / finetune for commercial use please?
Can i create a software and sell it if I generated the code with Minimax m2.7 ?
@he or @ryanlee-dev can we have a clarification about generated code / finetune for commercial use please?
Can i create a software and sell it if I generated the code with Minimax m2.7 ?
It's worse than that:
If the Software (or any derivative works thereof) is used for any Commercial Use, you shall prominently display "Built with MiniMax M2.7" on a related website, user interface, blogpost, about page or product documentation.
So this is SIMILAR to the old 3-clause BSD license, with the advertising clause, which caused huge amounts of pain for everyone downstream of it: so much so, that "2-clause BSD license" is well known term, and many organisations (commercial and non-commercial) have explicit governance rules saying that use of anything that's 3-clause BSD-licensed is simply not allowed.
BUT, it's worse than even that, because it's yet another different license (they didn't even "just" use the BSD 3-clause, bad as it is), so it proliferates license incompatibilities: a combinatorial explosion of licenses from different software, all demanding different things. For example, if you use this model to build an open source library, then every downstream product now needs to "prominently display 'Built with MiniMax M2.7", but it needs to do so in different places than BSD would require. Either way, neither BSD nor this license are compatible with most linux software that's GPL'd, because GPL requires "freedom to use for any purpose" and freedom to distribute and so on.
And remember, even the most liberal "do whatever you want with this" license would NOT even quality as open source; only open weights. All while MiniMax benefit from decades of open source software and openly provided code, helpful answers, public domain books, and other content from the internet.
Ultimately this is a junk release, not even useful for open source projects. They explicitly talk it up saying it's for Professional use, but want payment for all but research and "toy" use. I guess they saw professional use potential in their model, and decided that profit was now the one true goal.
I literally just hit Ctrl-C on the download due to this. It's that bad; not even worth trying.
Sad day. M2.5 was my go-to model. Now it's Qwen 3.5. Soon, it will hopefully be Step-3.6-Flash. After that, the Nvidia/Mistral/Perplexity/others Nemotron Coalition will likely take the lead on open models.