Five minutes, not five hours. Here is how I spend them. - Minute one: the grant. Commercial use, modification, distribution explicitly allowed? Any hedge, slow down. - Minutes two and three: the gotchas. Thresholds and user-count triggers, acceptable use policies, no-compete training clauses, redistribution conditions. - Minute four: attribution and notice requirements. Easy to comply with, easy to forget. - Minute five: version match. Licenses attach to specific releases, and weights vs API can mean different terms. - Then log it: model, version, license, date checked, source link. One row per model. That is what "we have our licensing in order" looks like. Do one thing: run this checklist on every model before you commit. Or let PrivateLLM deploy handle the deployment on your own AWS for $50 plus usage.