# CLIP allows commercial use?

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**Created:** [August 11, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fclip-allows-commercial-use%2F50482 "2023-08-11T23:41:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon9969843](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@anon9969843](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fanon9969843)%5C
**Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fclip-allows-commercial-use%2F50482%2F1 "2023-08-11T23:41:04Z")

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I can’t see clearly if CLIP model allows commercial use from the model card page:

> **[openai/clip-vit-base-patch16 · Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-base-patch16)**
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> We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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**Author:** ![VanechikSpace](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/vanechikspace/32/32367_2.png) [@VanechikSpace](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FVanechikSpace)%5C
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fclip-allows-commercial-use%2F50482%2F2 "2024-10-03T15:01:50Z")

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me too. anybody knows ?

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FJohn6666)%5C
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fclip-allows-commercial-use%2F50482%2F3 "2024-10-03T15:19:51Z")

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whisper has a link to the license but CLIP does not…  
I don’t know what it is.

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FJohn6666)%5C
**Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:28am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fclip-allows-commercial-use%2F50482%2F4 "2024-10-04T03:28:26Z")

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Not OpenAI’s, but LAION’s CLIP is clearly marked as a mit license. There may be other CLIPs.

> **[laion/CLIP-ViT-H-14-laion2B-s32B-b79K · Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/laion/CLIP-ViT-H-14-laion2B-s32B-b79K)**
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> We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.