Apache License 2.0
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Apache-2.0OSI ✓Daten aktualisiert am 26. Sept. 2026Maschinelle ÜbersetzungIn einfachen Worten
Freizügige Lizenz mit ausdrücklicher Patentlizenz, Patent-Vergeltungsklausel und der Pflicht, geänderte Dateien zu kennzeichnen.
Vergleich: Ein kostenloser Werkzeugkasten mit dem Versprechen, Sie nicht wegen seiner Patente zu verklagen – außer Sie klagen zuerst.
Vorteile
- + Ausdrückliche Patentlizenz jedes Beitragenden
- + Von vielen Unternehmen und Stiftungen bevorzugt
- + Schützt Marken
Nachteile
- - Länger; NOTICE-Datei muss beachtet werden
- - Nicht kompatibel mit GPL-2.0-only
- - Verhindert keine gehosteten Konkurrenten
Bekannte Projekte mit dieser Lizenz
34 bekannte Projekte auf unserer Karte nutzen diese Lizenz.
- Android Open Source ProjectBetriebssystem · Google
- Apache CassandraDatenbank · Apache Software Foundation
- Apache CouchDBDatenbank · Apache Software Foundation
- Apache HTTP ServerWebserver und Backend · Apache Software Foundation
- Apache KafkaMessaging und Streaming · Apache Software Foundation
- Apache PekkoEntwicklerwerkzeuge · Apache Software Foundation
- CaddyWebserver und Backend · ZeroSSL
- ChromaDatenbank · Chroma
- ClickHouseDatenbank · ClickHouse Inc.
- Eclipse JettyWebserver und Backend · Eclipse FoundationZusätzlich angeboten unter: EPL-2.0
- etcdDatenbank · CNCF
- Falcon-40BKI-Modell · Technology Innovation InstituteGewechselt am 31. Mai 2023
- Hugging Face TransformersKI-Modell · Hugging Face
- KotlinSprache und Laufzeit · JetBrains
- KubernetesDevOps · CNCF
- MilvusDatenbank · LF AI & Data
- Mistral 7BKI-Modell · Mistral AI
- Moby (Docker Engine)DevOps · Docker
- NATS ServerMessaging und Streaming · CNCF
- OLMoKI-Modell · Allen Institute for AI
- OpenSearchDatenbank · OpenSearch Software Foundation
- OpenSearch DashboardsObservability · OpenSearch Software Foundation
- OpenSSLEntwicklerwerkzeuge · OpenSSL FoundationGewechselt am 7. Sept. 2021
- PrometheusObservability · CNCF
- QdrantDatenbank · Qdrant
- Qwen2.5-7BKI-Modell · Alibaba Cloud
- RustSprache und Laufzeit · Rust FoundationZusätzlich angeboten unter: MIT
- SupabaseWebserver und Backend · Supabase
- SwiftSprache und Laufzeit · Apple
- TensorFlowKI-Modell · Google
- TiDBDatenbank · PingCAP
- TimescaleDBDatenbank · TimescaleZusätzlich angeboten unter: Timescale License
- TypeScriptSprache und Laufzeit · Microsoft
- vLLMKI-Modell · PyTorch Foundation
Projekte, die sie aufgegeben haben
- 7. Sept. 2022Akka→ BSL-1.1
- 4. Juni 2019CockroachDB→ BSL-1.1
- 14. Jan. 2021Elasticsearch→ SSPL-1.0 / ELv2
- 20. Apr. 2021Grafana→ AGPL-3.0
- 20. Apr. 2021Grafana Loki→ AGPL-3.0
- 14. Jan. 2021Kibana→ SSPL-1.0 / ELv2
- 19. Apr. 2021MinIO→ AGPL-3.0
- 6. Nov. 2023Synapse (Matrix)→ AGPL-3.0
Erlaubnisse
- Kommerzielle Nutzung
- Änderung
- Weitergabe
- Private Nutzung
- Patentlizenz
Bedingungen
- Copyright-Hinweis beibehalten
- Änderungen kennzeichnen
Einschränkungen
- Keine Haftung
- Keine Gewährleistung
- Keine Markenrechte
Extremszenarien · Code-Lizenzen
- A1ErlaubtEin Cloud-Anbieter verkauft Ihr Projekt als Managed Service
- A2ErlaubtJemand forkt es und verbreitet einen proprietären KonkurrentenGeänderte Dateien müssen gekennzeichnet werden
- A3ErlaubtIn ein proprietäres SaaS-Backend eingebettet (ohne Weitergabe)
- A4ErlaubtIn eine proprietäre App oder Firmware gelinkt und verbreitet
- A5Von der Lizenz untersagtJemand bewirbt eine veränderte Version mit Ihrem Namen oder Ihrer Marke
- A6ErlaubtJemand verkauft unveränderte Kopien
- B1Von der Lizenz untersagtEin Nutzer verklagt Sie wegen Patentverletzung und nutzt den Code weiterPatentlizenz erlischt
- B2Von der Lizenz untersagtEin Beitragender macht Patente an seinem beigetragenen Code geltendAusdrückliche Patentlizenz
- B3Nicht geregeltEin grenzüberschreitender Streit: anwendbares Recht und Gerichtsstand
- C1Unter BedingungenSie ändern später die Lizenz oder verkaufen kommerzielle Lizenzen (ohne CLA)Wie MIT
- C2ErlaubtIhr Code wird in ein GPL-3.0-Projekt übernommenAber nicht kompatibel mit GPL-2.0
- C3Von der Lizenz untersagtSie nutzen eine GPL-3.0-Abhängigkeit und veröffentlichen trotzdem unter dieser Lizenz
- C4ErlaubtDas Projekt wird aufgegeben und jemand führt es als Fork weiter
- C5Von der Lizenz untersagtSie wollen nur Großkonzerne oder Wettbewerber ausschließen
- C6Nicht geregeltKerncode stammt von Angestellten und der Arbeitgeber widerspricht
- D1Von der Lizenz untersagtJemand entfernt Copyright- oder Namensnennungshinweise
- D2Von der Lizenz untersagtJemand ändert Dateien, ohne die Änderungen zu kennzeichnen
- D3ErlaubtInterne Änderung ohne Weitergabe und ohne externen Dienst
- D4ErlaubtGenutzt für Militär, Überwachung oder andere Zwecke, die Sie ablehnen
- D5Nicht geregeltGenutzt von einer sanktionierten Organisation
- D6Nicht geregeltIhr Code wird zum Training eines KI-Modells verwendet
Worst-Case-Radar
- 1Gegen Trittbrettfahrer0
- 2Gegen geschlossene Forks0
- 3Patentschutz100
- 4Einführungshürde0
- 5Schwierigkeit des Lizenzwechsels50
Aus der Szenario-Matrix berechnet. Höher bedeutet mehr von dieser Eigenschaft, nicht „besser“.
Extremszenarien · Modell- und Datenlizenzen
- E1ErlaubtGewichte werden für Militär, Überwachung oder Desinformation genutzt
- E2ErlaubtDestillation oder Training anderer Modelle mit seinen Ausgaben
- E3ErlaubtEin Hyperscaler nutzt es kommerziell
- E4ErlaubtFeinabgestimmt, umbenannt und als geschlossene Gewichte veröffentlicht
- E5ErlaubtEin Datensatz wird kommerziell genutzt und weiterverbreitet
- E6Von der Lizenz untersagtSie wollen nur Forschungszwecke erlauben
Worst-Case-Radar
- 1Missbrauchskontrolle0
- 2Kontrolle über Ableitungen0
- 3Kommerzielle Kontrolle0
- 4Einführungshürde0
Aus der Szenario-Matrix berechnet. Höher bedeutet mehr von dieser Eigenschaft, nicht „besser“.
Vergleichen mit …
- Apache-2.0+LLVM
- BSD-2
- BSD-3
- Boost-1.0
- ISC
- MIT
- MIT-0
- MulanPSL-2.0
- PostgreSQL
- Unicode-3.0
- Unlicense
- UPL-1.0
- Zlib
- APSL-2.0
- Artistic-2.0
- CDDL-1.0
- EPL-1.0
- EPL-2.0
- GPL-2.0+CPE
- LGPL-2.1
- LGPL-3.0
- LPPL-1.3c
- MPL-2.0
- Perl-5
- GPL-2.0
- GPL-3.0
- AGPL-3.0
- BSL-1.1
- Confluent CL
- ELv2
- FSL-1.1
- RSALv2
- SSPL-1.0
- Baichuan 2
- BLOOM RAIL 1.0
- ChatGLM License
- DeepSeek License
- Falcon License 2.0
- FLUX.1-dev NC
- Gemma
- Hunyuan Community
- Llama
- Mistral Research
- NVIDIA Open Model
- OpenRAIL-M
- Stability Community
- Qwen License
- CC BY 4.0
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- CC0
- CDLA-Permissive-1.0
- Etalab-2.0
- GFDL-1.3
- ODbL-1.0
- ODC-By-1.0
- OFL-1.1
- OGL-UK-3.0
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Apache License 2.0
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Version 2.0, January 2004
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