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Open-source licenses range from permissive to restrictive, including Apache 2.0, MIT, and custom community licenses defined by individual companies, the latter of which often impose restrictions on commercial-scale use and similar areas; Meta's Llama series and some of Mistral's earlier models have adopted custom licenses with additional conditions.
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UnverifiedOpen-source models are typically released under Apache 2.0, MIT, or custom licenses that allow commercial use and modification, and operate under a different regulatory framework from hardware export controls.77% similarVerifiedThe MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses permit commercial use and closed-source modifications, the GPL requires derivative works to also be open-sourced, and the AGPL requires open-sourcing even when software is provided as a service over a network.76% similarVerifiedThe Apache 2.0 license allows users to freely use, modify, distribute, and commercialize models, with the only major requirement being to retain the original copyright notice and license text; it is more permissive than the community license previously used by the Meta Llama series, which imposed additional restrictions on companies with over 700 million monthly active users.76% similarUnverifiedOpen-source licenses Apache 2.0, GPL, and AGPL have significant differences in commercial use, directly affecting enterprise customers' legal compliance decisions.71% similarVerifiedThe Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses are jointly ranked as the two most enterprise-friendly open-source options, with Apache 2.0 additionally providing patent grant clauses.71% similar
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