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title: "Which DeepSeek model licenses allow commercial fine-tuning and redistribution?"  
description: "Which DeepSeek model licenses allow commercial fine-tuning and redistribution?"  
author: "Lea Hartmann"  
published: 2026-10-22  
updated: 2026-10-22  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162850/which-deepseek-model-licenses-allow-commercial-fine-tuning-and-redistribution  
category: "DeepSeek Models"  
tags: ["DeepSeek", "Open-weight models", "AI licensing"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Which DeepSeek model licenses allow commercial fine-tuning and redistribution?

I’m evaluating DeepSeek open-weight models for a product that may involve fine-tuning and distributing model weights to customers. The licensing details seem worth checking model by model rather than assuming every release has identical terms.

Which license documents should I compare for [commercial use](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2540/focus-on-navic-and-isros-future-satellites-commercial-use-to-obtain-more-frequency), fine-tuned derivatives, and redistribution? If you’ve reviewed a particular DeepSeek checkpoint, it would help to know exactly which model version and license you checked.


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