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Popular project licenses
- A-TuneMulanPSL-2.0
- AirbyteELv2
- AkkaBSL-1.1
- Amazon CorrettoGPL-2.0+CPE
- amsmathLPPL-1.3c
- Android Open Source ProjectApache-2.0
- AngularMIT
- AnsibleGPL-3.0
- Apache CassandraApache-2.0
- Apache CouchDBApache-2.0
- Apache HTTP ServerApache-2.0
- Apache KafkaApache-2.0
- Apache PekkoApache-2.0
- Apple LibcAPSL-2.0
- AsioBoost-1.0
- AstroMIT
- Aya 23CC BY-NC 4.0
- babel (LaTeX)LPPL-1.3c
- Baichuan2-13B-BaseBaichuan 2
- Baichuan2-13B-ChatBaichuan 2
- Baichuan2-13B-Chat-4bitsBaichuan 2
- Baichuan2-7B-BaseBaichuan 2
- Baichuan2-7B-ChatBaichuan 2
- Base Adresse NationaleEtalab-2.0
- BeatsSSPL-1.0 / ELv2
- BLOOMBLOOM RAIL 1.0
- BLOOM 1B7BLOOM RAIL 1.0
- BLOOM 3BBLOOM RAIL 1.0
- BLOOM 7B1BLOOM RAIL 1.0
- BLOOMZBLOOM RAIL 1.0
- Boost C++ LibrariesBoost-1.0
- Bullet PhysicsZlib
- BunMIT
- C4 (AllenAI release)ODC-By-1.0
- CaddyApache-2.0
- CatalystPerl-5
- Catch2Boost-1.0
- cfn-lintMIT-0
- ChatGLM-6BChatGLM License
- ChatGLM2-6BChatGLM License
- ChatGLM3-6BChatGLM License
- ChatGLM3-6B-32KChatGLM License
- ChromaApache-2.0
- ClickHouseApache-2.0
- ClojureEPL-1.0
- ClojureScriptEPL-1.0
- CockroachDBCockroachDB Software License
- COCO annotationsCC BY 4.0
- Code LlamaLlama
- CodecovFSL-1.1
- CodeGeeX2-6BChatGLM License
- CodeGemmaGemma
- Coherence Community EditionUPL-1.0
- Command R (open weights)CC BY-NC 4.0
- Common VoiceCC0
- Companies House dataOGL-UK-3.0
- Confluent REST ProxyConfluent CL
- Confluent Schema RegistryConfluent CL
- ConsulBSL-1.1
- core.asyncEPL-1.0
Recent license changes
- May 1, 2025RedisRSALv2 / SSPL-1.0 → AGPL-3.0 / RSALv2 / SSPL-1.0
- Aug 29, 2024ElasticsearchSSPL-1.0 / ELv2 → AGPL-3.0 / SSPL-1.0 / ELv2
- Aug 29, 2024KibanaSSPL-1.0 / ELv2 → AGPL-3.0 / SSPL-1.0 / ELv2
- Aug 15, 2024CockroachDBBSL-1.1 → CockroachDB Software License
- Mar 20, 2024RedisBSD-3 → RSALv2 / SSPL-1.0
- Nov 17, 2023SentryBSL-1.1 → FSL-1.1
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