MiniMax H3 License Doesn't Apply in US, EU, UK, or South Korea — Read Before Installing
LeoLeg76 · reddit · 2026-09-21
MiniMax's H3 video model just landed with native ComfyUI support (Comfy-Org repack, t2v and native-audio workflow templates, int8convrot recommended on a 5090), but its LICENSE contains an "Excluded Territories" clause covering the EU, UK, South Korea, and the US — running it there means operating with no license at all.
Comparison with other video models in ComfyUI:
- HunyuanVideo: same territory trap minus the US exclusion
- LTX-2.3 (Lightricks): $10M revenue threshold, no territory clause — quietly the safest
- Wan 2.1/2.2: Apache-2.0, still the sane default
Key takeaways: the Comfy-Org repack does no license magic (the Qwen3-VL text encoder is Apache-2.0; it's the diffusion weights + VAEs that carry the clause), and you should check the "Territory" section of community licenses before downloading — downloadable weights ≠ licensed to run.
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