Commercial use permission request – DeEffect v1beta
Hello gilliaan, and thank you for sharing your models.
We run AICover (aicover.uz, Telegram bot @rvc_voice_music_bot and a mobile app), a service that creates AI voice covers for users. We tested gilliaan_bsroformer_deeffect_v1beta on lead vocals: it removes reverb, echo and vocal doubling much more cleanly than the other models we tried, and the results sounded very natural.
Because the models are released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, we would like to ask whether you allow commercial use of DeEffect in our paid service, and under what terms (a license fee, revenue share, attribution, or other conditions). We are glad to credit you wherever you prefer. If a commercial license is possible, please reply here or tell us the best way to contact you.
Thank you for your time and for the great work!
hey, thanks for asking properly and glad DeEffect works well on your vocals.
i'm going to pass on this. the models are non-commercial on purpose and i want to keep them that way, so no commercial licence, no revenue share, no paid exception.
to be clear about what that means for AICover:
- no use of DeEffect (or any of my models) in the paid side of the service, free trials or free tiers included if they exist to sell the paid one
- no fine-tuning, retraining, distilling or quantising my checkpoints for commercial use, and no commercial use of anything derived from them
- no training your own models on DeEffect outputs
- no reuploading, reselling or bundling the weights anywhere
- only if you decide to only use my model for non commercial usage: credit "DeEffect by gilliaan" wherever you list what the service runs on
the license stays CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: free to use, share and adapt for non-commercial purposes, with credit, and any adaptation shared under the same license. if AICover is genuinely free to use, that's covered and you're welcome to it. if any part of it is paid, it isn't.
good luck with the service.
gilliaan
Hi gilliaan, thank you for your reply and for being so clear about the licence. If you are open to it, I would like to ask once more. My bot and website are hosted in Uzbekistan, and I have put your model into them. I charge only about $6 a month, which covers the electricity and internet costs of the RTX 5070 that I run at home. Could you please allow me to keep using DeEffect until I find another model to replace it? Or, if you would rather not, could you point me to a similar model with a licence that allows commercial use? Thank you in advance. I have to admit that it is a very high-quality model, and I really cannot bring myself to let it go.
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hey, i appreciate you being upfront that it's already in there.
for what it's worth, a revenue share was the option i looked at hardest, and i'd have said yes to it in another setup. what killed it was the practical side: i have no way to verify what a telegram bot in another country actually earns, no realistic way to enforce the agreement from france if the reporting stopped, and getting small recurring payments out of uzbekistan is slow and expensive for both of us. that's a structure problem and not a judgement on you.
but to be clear: putting it in a paid service after i said no isn't something i'm going to treat as a grey area. $6 a month is still paid, whatever the money covers on your side.
so: you have until 30 november 2026 to take DeEffect out of AICover. that's a one-time courtesy so you're not left with a broken pipeline, not a licence, and it won't be extended. let me know here when it's removed.
on finding a replacement, i'm not going to point you anywhere. most dereverb and de-echo checkpoints floating around are CC BY-NC-SA like mine, so you'd likely end up in the same situation with someone else. if you need something you can use commercially you'll have to train it yourself or license it from someone who sells one.
nothing personal, the service looks genuinely useful. the licence is just the licence.
gilliaan