commercial use restriction

A commercial use restriction is a license term blocking for-profit application of a resource that is otherwise free to view, pending paid terms or written permission.

In the cataloged slice it shows up across curated reference databases. Both Mobiusi Hugging Face image datasets (household cleaning products and household paper products occlusion sets) carry dataset cards stating commercial use "Requires exclusive subscription or authorization contract" from Mobiusi. KEGG DRUG states non-academic/commercial use requires a commercial license agreement from Pathway Solutions. WHO's ATC/DDD Index bars copying and distribution for commercial purposes outright. CPID limits anything beyond personal use to prior written permission, and Drugs.com offers no reuse license at all.

"Free to access" and "free to use commercially" are different claims, and confusing them is how compliance problems start. A pharma team that scrapes KEGG DRUG identifiers into a paid product, or a retailer who trains models on the Mobiusi images for a commercial application, is using restricted material without the required agreement.

The buyer consequence is pricing opacity. Restricted sources rarely publish commercial terms - Mobiusi quotes by contact email, KEGG licenses through Pathway Solutions - so budgeting means a sales cycle, not a price page. Drugs.com goes further: content licensed from Cerner Multum, ASHP, First Databank, Wolters Kluwer and Micromedex with no reuse license offered, plus robots.txt blocking scraping bots.

There is a quality consequence too. Catalog quality scores run lower on restricted records (Drugs.com scores 5 of 10, CPID 7 of 10), partly because verification cannot include redistribution testing.

1. Read the dataset card, not just the repo badge. The Mobiusi repos carry CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 badges, but the operative terms sit in the card text requiring a subscription or authorization contract.
2. Separate browsing rights from reuse rights. CPID is free to browse while "use other than personal use requires prior written permission" - the distinction decides whether your pipeline is lawful.
3. Identify who sells the commercial license. KEGG routes commercial agreements through Pathway Solutions; knowing the counterparty tells you the procurement path.

commercial delivery terms-NC-SA license is the specific non-commercial variant carried by both Mobiusi datasets.

All rights reserved license describes sources like CPID where no open grant exists at all.

Bulk download access and API rate limiting are the technical gates layered on top of legal ones.

Industries where the catalog applies this term: pharmaceuticals data and household-products data.