Is there a path for Commercial license for a fine-tuned version of NLLB-200?

[nohaelprince]

Hi, Is there a way to use a fine-tuned version of NLLB-200-distilled-1.3B model for translation from English to Canadian French and use it in production for a fin-tech firm in Canada?

[avidale]

Hi @nohaelprince !
NLLB-200 models are distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which explicitly prohibits, among other things, using the models or their "translated, altered, arranged, transformed, or otherwise modified" versions for commercial purposes.
Fine-tuning the model seems to be a case of such adaptation, so it is not authorized. Maybe, it could be used somewhere in your pipeline that prepares data for training some other model, but I am not an expert on such matters.