# What does the Tencent Hunyuan Community License (HunyuanVideo) restrict by territory, user count, derivative models and outputs, and what notices must accompany redistribution?

- id: art_01M5NQ1H5J7QADCR3VTS5D4S7A
- type: article · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T06, T09, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-24T01:05:14.924Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5NQ1H5J7QADCR3VTS5D4S7A

Problem. HunyuanVideo (and models built on it) is common in ComfyUI video stacks, but its licence differs sharply from Apache. Conditions. tencent/HunyuanVideo on Hugging Face, revision 6204ad6a (modified 2025-03-06), files LICENSE and Notice; licence card name tencent-hunyuan-community; release date of the model licence Dec 3, 2024; GitHub licence metadata for Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo reads NOASSERTION. Method. Territory: the agreement states it does not apply in the European Union, United Kingdom and South Korea, and that use of the Works or any Output outside the Territory is unlicensed (section 5c). Scale: if the licensee's products exceeded 100 million monthly active users in the month before the version release date, a separate licence must be requested and no rights apply until granted (section 4). Output and derivatives: you must not use the Works or any Output or results to improve any other AI model (section 5b); Model Derivatives include distillation and training on s...

Problem. HunyuanVideo (and models built on it) is common in ComfyUI video stacks, but its licence differs sharply from Apache. Conditions. tencent/HunyuanVideo on Hugging Face, revision 6204ad6a (modified 2025-03-06), files LICENSE and Notice; licence card name tencent-hunyuan-community; release date of the model licence Dec 3, 2024; GitHub licence metadata for Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo reads NOASSERTION. Method. Territory: the agreement states it does not apply in the European Union, United Kingdom and South Korea, and that use of the Works or any Output outside the Territory is unlicensed (section 5c). Scale: if the licensee's products exceeded 100 million monthly active users in the month before the version release date, a separate licence must be requested and no rights apply until granted (section 4). Output and derivatives: you must not use the Works or any Output or results to improve any other AI model (section 5b); Model Derivatives include distillation and training on synthetic Outputs, but Outputs by themselves are not Derivatives; derivatives you create are owned by you subject to the agreement. Distribution (only inside the Territory): give recipients the agreement, mark modified files, accompany non-hosted distributions with the Notice text, and include the use restrictions in downstream terms; 'Powered by Tencent Hunyuan' marking and a public statement are encouraged, not required. A Hosted Service counts as use. The Acceptable Use Policy (Exhibit A) is incorporated by reference. Failure modes. Treating the model as 'open weights, commercial OK' while serving users in the EU/UK/South Korea or training a competitor on its outputs; shipping weights without the Notice file. Limitations. Not legal advice; a reading of published text for engineering triage. Exhibit A (acceptable use list) was not summarised. Whether fine-tunes built on it (e.g. FramePack, see sibling finding) inherit these terms is an open question. Version and date. Revision 6204ad6a.

Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.

Limitations: Text read from the HF mirror of the licence; the GitHub copy was not compared.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/tencent/HunyuanVideo/raw/6204ad6aea1a77ff5aba337c88278bb9500eb37d/LICENSE",
      "note": "preamble; 4. Additional commercial terms; 5(b); 3(d)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Problem. HunyuanVideo (and models built on it) is common in ComfyUI video stacks, but its licence differs sharply from Apache. Conditions. tencent/HunyuanVideo on Hugging Face, revision 6204ad6a (modified 2025-03-06), files LICENSE and Notice; licence card name tencent-hunyuan-community; release date of the model licence Dec 3, 2024; GitHub licence metadata for Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo reads NOASSERTION. Method. Territory: the agreement states it does not apply in the European Union, United Kingdom and South Korea, and that use of the Works or any Output outside the Territory is unlicensed (section 5c). Scale: if the licensee's products exceeded 100 million monthly active users in the month before the version release date, a separate licence must be requested and no rights apply until granted (section 4). Output and derivatives: you must not use the Works or any Output or results to improve any other AI model (section 5b); Model Derivatives include distillation and training on synthetic Outputs, but Outputs by themselves are not Derivatives; derivatives you create are owned by you subject to the agreement. Distribution (only inside the Territory): give recipients the agreement, mark modified files, accompany non-hosted distributions with the Notice text, and include the use restrictions in downstream terms; 'Powered by Tencent Hunyuan' marking and a public statement are encouraged, not required. A Hosted Service counts as use. The Acceptable Use Policy (Exhibit A) is incorporated by reference. Failure modes. Treating the model as 'open weights, commercial OK' while serving users in the EU/UK/South Korea or training a competitor on its outputs; shipping weights without the Notice file. Limitations. Not legal advice; a reading of published text for engineering triage. Exhibit A (acceptable use list) was not summarised. Whether fine-tunes built on it (e.g. FramePack, see sibling finding) inherit these terms is an open question. Version and date. Revision 6204ad6a. · locator: preamble; 4. Additional commercial terms; 5(b); 3(d) · source: https://huggingface.co/tencent/HunyuanVideo/raw/6204ad6aea1a77ff5aba337c88278bb9500eb37d/LICENSE

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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