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What each vendor's terms say about commercial use

The conditions that money cannot clear

Most boundaries in this register are cleared by paying. Three are not: one is drawn as a territory excluding named jurisdictions, one as a ceiling on monthly active users, and one as a revenue figure inside the licensee's own accounts. As of 2026-09-12.

Where each condition is measured, and by whomA territory condition is checked against company records, a user ceiling against product analytics, and a revenue figure against accounts. Two of the three are invisible to the vendor that wrote them.Company recordsWhere the entity is establishedA fact anybody can checkCatches small studios aswell as large onesProduct analyticsMonthly active usersA metric with severaldefinitionsChecked by whoeverrelies on the grantThe accountsAnnual revenueA finance figureUnqualified as to whichentities countOne grant, three conditions with no priceThe obligation to notice belongs to the licensee
Fig. 1 Nobody sends an invoice when a threshold is crossed, and nothing stops working.
Conditions on a grant that no subscription can satisfy, and where each one is measured. Recorded 2026-09-12.
ConditionWhat it measuresWho can see the trigger
A defined territoryWhere the licensee is establishedAnybody, from company records
A user ceilingMonthly active users of a productThe licensee's analytics team
A revenue figureThe licensee's annual revenueThe licensee's finance team

Inclusion rule. Conditions stated in a vendor's own licence that decide whether commercial use is permitted and that cannot be satisfied by paying more. Order. By where the condition is measured: company records, then product analytics, then accounts.

1A boundary with no price on it

A plan-shaped boundary tells a reader what to spend. These three tell a reader to check a fact about themselves, and two of those facts are invisible to the vendor that wrote the condition.

That inverts the usual compliance posture. Nobody will send an invoice when a threshold is crossed, nothing will stop working, and the obligation to notice belongs entirely to whoever is relying on the grant.

2The territory condition catches small users too

Thresholds are decoration for almost every reader. A territory that excludes the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea catches a two-person studio in Bristol as squarely as a listed company.

It is also the condition most likely to be missed, because it sits in a definitions section rather than in a list of exceptions. A grant can say worldwide and mean something narrower two paragraphs away.

3What to write down instead of a figure

Which entity is relying on the grant, and where it is established. For the thresholds, the figure being used and the definition behind it, checked on a schedule rather than when somebody remembers.

None of that is a reading problem. It is a small amount of record-keeping that turns three conditions nobody monitors into three facts somebody can answer in an afternoon.

  • Where the licence applies
    Territory is defined as the worldwide territory, excluding the territory of the European Union, United Kingdom and South Koreaa geographic carve-outTencent Hunyuan community licence / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Scale condition
    A licensee whose products or services exceed 100 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month must request a licence from Tencentabove which the grant stopsTencent Hunyuan community licence / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Threshold
    The community licence covers commercial use until the licensee has more than USD $1,000,000 in annual revenuestated as annual revenueStability AI community licence / recorded 2026-09-22

4From the making side

Alongside the terms behind “Not money”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:

Every character, scene and prop card can carry a short list of the other names your script uses for the same thing.

SceneMixer, Also Called: Nicknames, Old Names, and How the Storyboard Knows Who Is Who (read 2026-10-13)

The photo is cleaned into a product shot and that object appears in every shot.

SceneMixer, An AI Ad for a Physical Product — “Will the product look like my product?” (read 2026-10-13)

5Sources

Each row quotes a plan card or a terms page, gathered on commercial use and read 2026-09-12. The test a sentence has to pass before it counts as a licence statement is set out on the reading page. Nothing here is legal advice. Nearby: What is kept, Weights, not plans, Free and granted.