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Our model is open source and licensed under Apache 2.0.
However, for commercial use, we want to ensure a very simple form, so it's not yet fully Apache 2.0.
To avoid misunderstandings, we didn't directly mention Apache 2.0.

@tc-mb I want to use this commercially. I can use that or no? Its a simple question really.

@mosama yes.
Absolutely, we only require you to fill out a very simple form so that we can understand the purpose, and then you can use it for commercial purposes without restriction.

“The models and weights of MiniCPM are completely free for academic research. After filling out a "questionnaire" for registration, MiniCPM-V 4.5 weights are also available for free commercial use.” https://modelbest.feishu.cn/share/base/form/shrcnpV5ZT9EJ6xYjh3Kx0J6v8g

I really love what you're doing here folks, and I'm not trying to be pushy but I do worry about you folks receiving hostility (above comment is likely a microcosm) with the language you're using. Anything that requires people to go through an interview process or anything like that really explicitly makes something NOT apache-2.0, and people are pretty serious about that distinction. I don't think it's a bad thing to modify open source licenses (see K2 modified MIT) and I also don't think it's the worst ever to do screening, in fact there are ethical reasons why someone might.

It's just people are really used to being rug pulled for bad reasons and while I know this isn't malicious it might come across as a "gotcha".

Sorry about the silly politics when what actually should matter is the science and work here!

@CyborgPaloma Thank you for your sincere suggestions. We have received them and shared them with the team. Regarding the commercial application of the model, we will strive to work with our company to minimize the number of permissions required to allow the community to use it more freely. We will consider further modifications to improve the model.

@CyborgPaloma Thank you again for your comments. The voice of the open source community reminds us that we must embrace a more open-source mindset.
We have already converted all the MiniCPM-V and MiniCPM-o models to the Apache 2.0 license. ^_^