Hugging Face Terms of Service, Your Content: the licence each user receives when a repository is public (Effective Date: September 15, 2022) (Hugging Face Terms of Service, Your Content)
Making a dataset repository public on the Hugging Face Hub gives every user a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use and redistribute it through the Hub. The holder keeps ownership; what it published is no longer something a buyer has to pay for.
Dated 31 Oct 2026Source checked 31 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
Selling a company's data? This is one of the rules a sale has to meet, and the guide beside the button reads it in plain words.
- No data upload
- About two minutes
- No email needed
In the source's own words
“You own the Content you create ... If you decide to set your Repository public, you grant each User a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of your Content through our Services and functionalities”
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It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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