Can I ship cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b in a commercial product?
cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b is declared under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. Here is the instant quick check.
Direct answer: Review required. The declared license carries conditions (attribution, share-alike, thresholds or use policies) that require a documented review before shipping. cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b is declared under CC Attribution-ShareAlike on the Hugging Face Hub; the LICENSIA quick check reviewed 5 metadata signals and found 4 clean and 1 flagged. The declared conditions must be reviewed and documented before commercial deployment. This automated summary is informational only — not legal advice; verify against the official repository before shipping.
Free quick check — 5 of 12 rules
| Rule | Status | What the metadata says |
|---|---|---|
| License identification RULE_METADATA_001 |
✓ clean | Identified as CC Attribution-ShareAlike. |
| Non-commercial restriction RULE_NONCOMMERCIAL_RESTRICTION_004 |
✓ clean | No non-commercial clause detected in the declared license. |
| Copyleft / viral obligations RULE_COPYLEFT_VIRAL_005 |
⚠ flagged | Copyleft or share-alike duties apply: distributed derivatives must carry the same license (and for ND variants, modified versions cannot be distributed at all). |
| Community license terms RULE_LLAMA_COMMUNITY_TERMS_006 |
✓ clean | No provider community terms detected in the declared license. |
| Use-restriction policy RULE_OPENRAIL_RESTRICTIONS_007 |
✓ clean | No OpenRAIL-style behavioral restrictions detected in the declared license. |
- Standalone LICENSE file presence
- Metadata vs. documentation contradiction
- Restrictive upstream base model
- Training dataset contamination
- Revision not pinned
- Upstream license laundering
- High-risk license clauses
Model facts
| Model | cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b |
|---|---|
| Declared license | CC Attribution-ShareAlike (cc-by-sa-4.0) |
| Task | text-generation |
| Library | transformers |
| Upstream base model | ResplendentAI/Flora_DPO_7B |
| Downloads (30 days) | 79 |
| Likes | 2 |
| Last updated | Aug 2, 2026 |
| Source | official repository on Hugging Face |
| Tags | transformers safetensors mistral text-generation merge mergekit |
Frequently asked questions
Can I use cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b commercially?
Conditionally. cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b is declared under CC Attribution-ShareAlike: Share-alike: adaptations must be distributed under the same license. The conditions must be reviewed and documented before commercial deployment.
What license is cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b released under?
Public metadata declares CC Attribution-ShareAlike (license tag: cc-by-sa-4.0). The license files inside the official repository are the authoritative source.
Does cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b require attribution?
Attribution is required under CC Attribution-ShareAlike: keep the copyright notice and license text in your product or documentation.
Can I fine-tune cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b and sell a product built on it?
Generally yes, provided the conditions of CC Attribution-ShareAlike are met for cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b — attribution, use policies and any user-scale thresholds. The fine-tuned weights remain subject to the original license terms unless separately granted.
Can I offer a SaaS or API service built on cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b?
Conditionally. If network copyleft (AGPL-style) applies, SaaS use can trigger source-disclosure duties; otherwise the CC Attribution-ShareAlike conditions for cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b must be reviewed and documented.
Can I redistribute cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b or its weights?
Yes. Redistribution is permitted under CC Attribution-ShareAlike, provided the license text and copyright notice are reproduced and downstream recipients receive the same terms.
Does CC Attribution-ShareAlike grant patents or trademarks?
Copyright only. CC Attribution-ShareAlike does not grant patent rights (Apache-2.0 is the notable exception). Trademark rights are generally reserved by the authors.
Is this page a legal opinion?
No. LICENSIA generates automated summaries from public metadata for information only. It is not legal advice and does not replace reading the official license or consulting qualified counsel.
How cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b compares within the CC Attribution-ShareAlike family
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|---|---|---|---|
| airesearch/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-th | CC Attribution-ShareAlike | Review required | 1,511,760 |
| nlpaueb/legal-bert-base-uncased | CC Attribution-ShareAlike | Review required | 1,087,652 |
| togatogah/jinen-v1-small.gguf | CC Attribution-ShareAlike | Review required | 557,122 |
| tohoku-nlp/bert-base-japanese-whole-word-masking | CC Attribution-ShareAlike | Review required | 413,802 |
| defog/sqlcoder-7b-2 | CC Attribution-ShareAlike | Review required | 346,899 |
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About the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license family
CC-BY-SA requires derivatives to be licensed under the same terms.
From the license text: “If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.” — CC BY-SA 4.0 deed
What this license permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
What this license requires
- Attribution
- Same CC-BY-SA license for derivatives
Common pitfall
Derivative works must also be CC-BY-SA, similar to GPL but for content/data.
How to verify this license yourself
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Statistics. cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b is one of 1,000,000+ open AI models indexed by LICENSIA, with 79 downloads and 2 likes on the Hugging Face Hub. This quick check returned 4/5 metadata signals clean.
Authoritative source. The license declaration is summarized from the official cstr/Spaetzle-v8-7b repository on Hugging Face. The SPDX identifier cc-by-sa-4.0 is canonically defined at spdx.org/licenses/cc-by-sa-4.0.
Verdict quote: The declared license carries conditions (attribution, share-alike, thresholds or use policies) that require a documented review before shipping.
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