Claim: On 13 November 2025 the MiniMax-M2 repository’s LICENSE was changed…

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published ↓MiniMax-M2 licence (MIT License with modification, 13 November 2025 text)

On 13 November 2025 the MiniMax-M2 repository’s LICENSE was changed to add, after the MIT License text, a modification requiring commercial products above 100 million monthly active users or 30 million US dollars in annual recurring revenue to display “MiniMax M2” prominently.

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Date: 2025-11-13 · revision

Scope and limitsThe change is read from the repository’s commit history and the two file versions; MiniMax’s own statement of the reason was not located, and the file does not say that the earlier text is superseded.

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MiniMax-M2 LICENSE (MIT License with modification), 13 November 2025

MiniMax-AI (GitHub) · 2025-11-13

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After the MIT License text, the file adds a paragraph naming its only modification: commercial products or services above 100 million monthly active users or 30 million US dollars annual recurring revenue must prominently display “MiniMax M2”.

Location in source LICENSE, final paragraph

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-27

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Authors: MiniMax
Version: Dated document, retrieved on 2026-10-27 (SHA-256 1a75fb68199afb1fcf3896b070b20ea05fe628945b946489d97d50b6a72eb10e) directly from the publisher. Version: a01f06af0e56b2bc992c81354155fa9c29d8a2ed. LICENSE at the commit "Reformat license" of 13 November 2025, following "Update LICENSE" the same day; later edits not inspected.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-27
Language: English (en)
Attribution: MiniMax, “MiniMax-M2 LICENSE (MIT License with modification), 13 November 2025”, 2025-11-13.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Chinese frontier-AI institutions, second collection (research/china-labs-2). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “Our only modification is that” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-27 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-27, item K050) re-read the record’s sources and agreed with the record. No human editorial review.

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Date. Date of the cited commits (“Update LICENSE”, “Reformat license”).

Record ID c2-minimax-m2-licence-nov

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