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Can I use BSD 3-Clause commercially, in AI training or with modifications?
Redistribute and use with or without modification, keeping the notice, conditions and disclaimer; contributors' names may not be used to endorse your product.
| Use | Answer | Why |
|---|---|---|
| commercial_use | Yes | Permitted, with duties: attribution, license_notice, no_endorsement. |
| model_training | Needs human review | The license grants broad rights but attaches conditions (such as keeping notices) to copies and adaptations. Whether a trained model, or its output, is a copy or adaptation that carries those conditions is legally unsettled, and in some places training may fall under an exception such as fair use. A human reviewer should confirm this use for your case. |
| modification | Yes | Permitted, with duties: attribution, license_notice, no_endorsement. |
| redistribution | Yes | Permitted, with duties: attribution, license_notice, no_endorsement. |
| model_inference | Yes | Permitted, with duties: attribution, license_notice, no_endorsement. |
Duties
attribution, license_notice, no_endorsement
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