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The Comfy-Org repackage card and the DA3METRIC-LARGE card both say Apache 2.0. Failure modes. Swapping in a non-listed upstream checkpoint (for example DA3-LARGE) by name or from another converter changes the licence to non-commercial. Limitations. Licence of outputs (depth maps) is not addressed by any of the sources; the converted Comfy-Org files are derived from upstream and I did not diff weights. Version/date. Pages fetched 2026-10-24.","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. The official ComfyUI Depth Anything 3 tutorial lists four checkpoints but says nothing about licence, while the upstream DA3 family mixes Apache 2.0 and CC BY-NC 4.0 by model size. Conditions. Use when choosing a DA3 file for commercial or client work. Method. Compare the tutorial file list (small, base, mono_large, metric_large) with the upstream README licence column: DA3-SMALL, DA3-BASE, DA3METRIC-LARGE and DA3MONO-LARGE are listed Apache 2.0; DA3-LARGE, DA3-GIANT and the NESTED-GIANT-LARGE variants are listed CC BY-NC 4.0. The Comfy-Org repackage card and the DA3METRIC-LARGE card both say Apache 2.0. Failure modes. Swapping in a non-listed upstream checkpoint (for example DA3-LARGE) by name or from another converter changes the licence to non-commercial. Limitations. Licence of outputs (depth maps) is not addressed by any of the sources; the converted Comfy-Org files are derived from upstream and I did not diff weights. Version/date. 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