Licence archive
Where each platform keeps its licence terms
Eleven places designers publish and sell, and how the right to sell a print is granted on each. No terms are reproduced here — every page links to the platform's own.
On most of these platforms the platform is not the licensor. The person who uploaded the model is, and they choose per model — which is why “is Cults3D commercial use?” has no single answer, and why the useful thing to know is where to look.
Platforms
Cults3D
Personal use only, unless the model's own licence says otherwise. The default terms specifically rule out selling prints.
Printables
The uploader picks a licence per model, most often a Creative Commons one, and the commercial question turns on which.
MakerWorld
MakerWorld grants no licence itself — the designer picks one from a set the platform defines, and once published it cannot be taken back.
Thingiverse
The uploader attaches a secondary licence to each thing — Thingiverse's own word — and that, not the site, decides whether a print can be sold.
MyMiniFactory
Downloads are non-commercial unless you have an arrangement — and that arrangement can be with the platform or with the designer.
Patreon
The creator grants the licence, not Patreon — and the terms call it revocable, tied to a membership that is still being paid for.
Thangs
Thangs' own subscription does not include the right to sell prints — that comes from an individual designer's membership, and the terms say so outright.
Gumroad
Gumroad sells the file, but the creator sets the licence: its terms say each product is licensed by the creator, through Gumroad, on the creator's own terms.
CGTrader
The seller picks the licence, and CGTrader's default Royalty Free License does not cover selling 3D printed copies: that needs a Custom License on the listing.
Fab
Fab's licence is Epic's Standard License, granted by the item's uploader. It is written for digital projects and says nothing about selling physical prints.
Cubee Hive
Cubee licenses the designs for the designers who made them, and your plan is the licence. It covers you only while the plan is paid.