Sections 2 and 3 grant licensees a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright and patent license to use, reproduce, distribute, sublicense, and create derivatives of the model and complementary materials, subject to the conditions of the license.
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The perpetual and royalty-free nature of the license grant permits broad commercial and non-commercial use and redistribution of the model without fee obligations to DeepSeek, subject to the use-based restrictions and distribution conditions established elsewhere in the agreement.
Under Sections 2 and 3, licensees receive broad rights to use, modify, and redistribute the model without royalty payments. These rights are subject to the use-based restrictions in Attachment A and the distribution conditions in Section 4, including the requirement to pass through use-based restrictions to downstream users.
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Compare across platforms →"Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, DeepSeek hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Complementary Material, the Model, and Derivatives of the Model. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License and where and as applicable, DeepSeek hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this paragraph) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Model and the Complementary Material, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by DeepSeek that are necessarily infringed by its contribution(s).Excerpt from DeepSeek's Open Source License
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The perpetual and royalty-free nature of the license grant permits broad commercial and non-commercial use and redistribution of the model without fee obligations to DeepSeek, subject to the use-based restrictions and distribution conditions established elsewhere in the agreement.
Under Sections 2 and 3, licensees receive broad rights to use, modify, and redistribute the model without royalty payments. These rights are subject to the use-based restrictions in Attachment A and the distribution conditions in Section 4, including the requirement to pass through use-based restrictions to downstream users.
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