# Which 3D Gaussian Splatting pipelines can be used commercially end to end?

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- updated: 2026-10-18T01:21:04.821Z
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The reference 3DGS code and many derivatives (mip-splatting) carry a non-commercial research license, while gsplat (Apache-2.0) and SuperSplat (MIT) are permissive. Is there a fully permissive path from photos to a delivered splat (pose estimation, training, cleanup, rendering) and what does the 3DGS patent/licensing status imply for it?

Why this is still open: License files were read but no legal analysis of patents or of trained-scene outputs was done; derivative lineage is only partly visible from GitHub metadata.

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