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The Prior Labs License (Apache 2.0 + one provision) explicitly permits distillation including commercial use, conditioned on attribution when the student is distributed. That gives users a legitimately distillable in-context tabular teacher alongside Chronos, in contrast to TabFM. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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‎README.md‎

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non-commercial license, for example, permits testing and evaluation (which
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is what our benchmarks are) but expressly excludes distilling it for
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commercial use or deploying its outputs in production. Chronos is
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Apache-2.0, and your own labels or models carry no such limits. The
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Apache-2.0; TabPFN's Prior Labs License permits distillation, including
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commercially, if you attribute ("Built with PriorLabs-TabPFN" and a
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TabPFN-prefixed model name) when you distribute the student; your own
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labels or models carry no such limits. The
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extension's license gate (`accept_license`) makes a restrictively-licensed
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teacher an explicit opt-in rather than an accident, but checking that your
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use fits the teacher's license is on you.

‎website/src/content/docs/guides/distillation.md‎

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One caveat that is not mechanical: **the teacher's license governs what you
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may distill**. A student is derived from its teacher, and some model
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licenses restrict distillation or commercial use of outputs (TabFM's
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non-commercial license does both; Chronos is Apache-2.0; your own labels
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and models carry no such limits). The `accept_license` option makes a
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licenses restrict distillation or commercial use of outputs. TabFM's
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non-commercial license does both; TabPFN's Prior Labs License permits
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distillation, commercially too, with attribution when you distribute the
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student; Chronos is Apache-2.0; your own labels and models carry no such
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limits. The `accept_license` option makes a
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restrictively-licensed teacher an explicit opt-in, but confirming that your
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use fits the teacher's terms is your responsibility.

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