DeepSeek License Agreement 1.0
Commercial use: allowed. Read from: licence file.
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Terms
- SPDX
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- Licence file
- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2/blob/main/LICENSE-MODEL
- Commercial use
- allowed
- Thresholds
- not in the notes
- Territory exclusions
- None stated; grant is worldwide. PRC law governs
- Attribution or naming
- Retain notices, mark modified files, pass on the licence and its use restrictions; no use of DeepSeek trademarks
- Use restrictions
- Attachment A bans military use, harm to minors, harmful false information, unauthorised personal data, fully automated decisions with adverse legal effect, and discrimination
Where this comes from
Terms paraphrased in the research notes from the licence file. The file itself governs.
Models Under This Licence
ModelClassReleased
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Dec 2024, DeepSeek-V2.5-1210)DeepSeekLLM10 Dec 2024
DeepSeek-V2.5DeepSeekLLM5 Sep 2024
DeepSeek-Coder-V2DeepSeekcode14 Jun 2024
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-BaseDeepSeekcode14 Jun 2024
DeepSeekMath 7B InstructDeepSeekreasoning5 Feb 2024
DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat (V1)DeepSeekLLM29 Nov 2023Sources
- github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2/blob/main/LICENSE-MODEL https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2/blob/main/LICENSE-MODEL
- huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2.5-1210 https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2.5-1210
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "DeepSeek License Agreement 1.0", https://aurion.semai.id/licences/deepseek-model-license/, records of October 2026.