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Getting around with Anaconda License violation while using Conda or Miniconda

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If you are a Conda or Miniconda user you might have noticed that installing Anaconda packages via the default channel https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/ now requires a commercial license if you are an enterprise . If you are using it for individual purposes or are a startup, you are still able to use it without violating any license. So for eg. if you normally installed conda and miniconda using the installers or any package manager and do a  conda install <package> it by default uses a default package repo channel https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/ to download that python package and install it. So you might be violating the licence by using this repo URL as your default channel.  To confirm whether you are violating the license one can issue  conda config --show default_channels     It can be seen that default repo is set to use https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/   channel URLs.  To get around this violation there are multiple options. I will list 2 of them here.   Option#1 : The firs