Is it possible to get a commercial license?

[skeptrunedev]

We are a startup who is attempting to sell a new search API with some of the latest open source text embedding and cross-encoder models. We ourselves are BSL-licensed so I totally understand not wanting someone to commercialize your work and give nothing back.

SPLADE is obviously a very good and well-tested sparse-vector encoder and alternative to BM_25 and we would like to include it in our commercial product if possible.

Is there a way to get a commercial license? We are still a tiny company without much revenue for an outright purchase, but maybe we could setup some kind of channel partnership? Not sure, but it would be amazing to figure something out if at all possible. Thanks!

[sclincha]

Hi @skeptrunedev ,
Yes it is possible to get a commercial licence. I''ll contact you

[firebait]

Hi @sclincha , we have been evaluating the new models and we would like to get some information on purchasing a commercial license.
We are startup looking to enhance our search product and we think the new models would be a good fit.
We were a bit bummed out that there was no commercial license available until we say this comment.
So, if you can please reach out to me. My email is in my bio. Looking forward to hearing from you.

[sclincha]

Hi @firebait ! Sure I''ll contact you!

[firebait]

Thank you @sclincha . As a quick follow up question regarding licensing. We are not planning on training a model we are just looking to use the current pre-trained models. Do those fall under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License as well?

[noahfradin]

Hi @sclincha. We're also a startup in need of a commercial license. We're fans and would like to understand our options. Could you reach out at the email in my bio?