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Can I use sound generated by MMAudio, HunyuanVideo-Foley or ThinkSound in a commercial delivery, according to what their licences and cards actually say?

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The texts differ per component. MMAudio: code MIT; checkpoints CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial) with a README warning that training-dataset licences apply and commercial suitability is not guaranteed. HunyuanVideo-Foley: Tencent Hunyuan Community License, which says Tencent claims no rights in Outputs but excludes EU/UK/South Korea, bars using Outputs to improve other AI models, restricts use outside the Territory and adds a 100M monthly-active-user condition. ThinkSound: HF card says Apache-2.0 while the GitHub README says commercial use is not permitted (see -05). No text read grants clearance; this record does not conclude legal permission.

The texts differ per component. MMAudio: code MIT; checkpoints CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial) with a README warning that training-dataset licences apply and commercial suitability is not guaranteed. HunyuanVideo-Foley: Tencent Hunyuan Community License, which says Tencent claims no rights in Outputs but excludes EU/UK/South Korea, bars using Outputs to improve other AI models, restricts use outside the Territory and adds a 100M monthly-active-user condition. ThinkSound: HF card says Apache-2.0 while the GitHub README says commercial use is not permitted (see -05). No text read grants clearance; this record does not conclude legal permission. Curator qualifications: MMAudio: code LICENSE 'MIT License'; README lines 181-183 'The code in this repository is released under the MIT license' / 'The checkpoints are released on Hugging Face under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license'; HF card 'license: cc-by-nc-4.0' and 'the checkpoints are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 and can be used for non-commercial purposes only'. HunyuanVideo-Foley LICENSE: 'TENCENT HUNYUAN COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT', 'Release Date: August 28, 2025', 'THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT DOES NOT APPLY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, UNITED KINGDOM AND SOUTH KOREA', grant 'for the Territory only'. ThinkSound per C3R-0066. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: [rights_conflict_record] Whether output (generated audio) is covered differently from model use is not stated uniformly; Tencent licence output clauses not re-read here. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
Structured fields
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/hkchengrex/MMAudio/blob/974010a026c731054592d8f777218bd9d85a6c24/LICENSE",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/hkchengrex/MMAudio/blob/eb13a1a98fdbec91753775c57b074ccdfc60587c/README.md",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/hkchengrex/MMAudio/blob/974010a026c731054592d8f777218bd9d85a6c24/README.md",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/tencent/HunyuanVideo-Foley/blob/3abd4e833b95b8db0fc9c687afc52483a48e9a97/LICENSE",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/tencent/HunyuanVideo-Foley/blob/3abd4e833b95b8db0fc9c687afc52483a48e9a97/README.md",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/QwenAudio/ThinkSound/blob/4e2cfd57efaaf40c90460d8111b6a3c1e7dfb2f0/README.md",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/FunAudioLLM/ThinkSound/blob/7f152d1a088f91b21307337060216f0dec8d4a8f/README.md",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] The texts differ per component. MMAudio: code MIT; checkpoints CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial) with a README warning that training-dataset licences apply and commercial suitability is not guaranteed. HunyuanVideo-Foley: Tencent Hunyuan Community License, which says Tencent claims no rights in Outputs but excludes EU/UK/South Korea, bars using Outputs to improve other AI models, restricts use outside the Territory and adds a 100M monthly-active-user condition. ThinkSound: HF card says Apache-2.0 while the GitHub README says commercial use is not permitted (see -05). No text read grants clearance; this record does not conclude legal permission. · locator: see curator disposition source

Rights

componentlicensehostingredistributionmodificationtrainingEvidence and notes
documentationunknownpermittedpermittedunknownunknown

Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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