Chinese Model

[qinyin369]

Are the Chinese models free for commercial use?

[apoorva-01]

Yeah, they're fine for commercial use. The zh_core_web_* models are released under the MIT license, which permits commercial use. You can check it for whatever version you have:

import spacy

nlp = spacy.load("zh_core_web_lg")
print(nlp.meta["license"])   # 'MIT'

One caveat worth knowing: MIT covers the model artifact (the weights spaCy ships). The NER component is trained on OntoNotes 5.0, so if you care about the provenance of the training data itself, that corpus carries its own LDC terms. For actually using or shipping the model, though, the MIT license on the release is what governs you.