In this guide, we will discuss what license YOLOv5 uses and how you can secure a license to use the model for commercial purposes.
YOLOv5 is licensed under an AGPL-3.0 license.
This means that YOLOv5 is available for private and commercial use, but that you will need to follow specific conditions. For commercial use, you need to follow AGPL-3.0 conditions or purchase a license for commercial use, modifications, and distribution.
Using an AGPL-3.0 licensed model is conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. When a modified version is used to provide a service over a network, the complete source code of the modified version must be made available.
To use YOLOv5 in a commercial project without the AGPL-3.0 conditions, you need a license. As a paid Roboflow customer, you automatically get access to use any YOLOv5 models trained on or uploaded to our platform for commercial use. This is secured under Roboflow’s sub-license agreement with Ultralytics, the creators of YOLOv5.
If you are a free Roboflow customer, you can use YOLOv5 in any way if using our serverless hosted API and can use YOLOv5 models commercially self-hosted with a paid plan.
To learn more about model licensing with Roboflow, refer to our Licensing guide.
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