Apache License 2.0
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优点
- + 每位贡献者都给出明示专利授权
- + 众多公司与基金会的首选
- + 保护商标
缺点
- - 条文较长,需要处理 NOTICE 文件
- - 与 GPL-2.0-only 不兼容
- - 无法阻止托管竞品
使用它的知名项目
图谱中有 34 个知名项目使用该许可证。
- Android Open Source Project操作系统 · Google
- Apache Cassandra数据库 · Apache Software Foundation
- Apache CouchDB数据库 · Apache Software Foundation
- Apache HTTP ServerWeb 服务与后端 · Apache Software Foundation
- Apache Kafka消息与流处理 · Apache Software Foundation
- Apache Pekko开发工具 · Apache Software Foundation
- CaddyWeb 服务与后端 · ZeroSSL
- Chroma数据库 · Chroma
- ClickHouse数据库 · ClickHouse Inc.
- Eclipse JettyWeb 服务与后端 · Eclipse Foundation同时提供:EPL-2.0
- etcd数据库 · CNCF
- Falcon-40BAI 模型 · Technology Innovation Institute于 2023年5月31日 改用
- Hugging Face TransformersAI 模型 · Hugging Face
- Kotlin语言与运行时 · JetBrains
- KubernetesDevOps · CNCF
- Milvus数据库 · LF AI & Data
- Mistral 7BAI 模型 · Mistral AI
- Moby (Docker Engine)DevOps · Docker
- NATS Server消息与流处理 · CNCF
- OLMoAI 模型 · Allen Institute for AI
- OpenSearch数据库 · OpenSearch Software Foundation
- OpenSearch Dashboards可观测性 · OpenSearch Software Foundation
- OpenSSL开发工具 · OpenSSL Foundation于 2021年9月7日 改用
- Prometheus可观测性 · CNCF
- Qdrant数据库 · Qdrant
- Qwen2.5-7BAI 模型 · Alibaba Cloud
- Rust语言与运行时 · Rust Foundation同时提供:MIT
- SupabaseWeb 服务与后端 · Supabase
- Swift语言与运行时 · Apple
- TensorFlowAI 模型 · Google
- TiDB数据库 · PingCAP
- TimescaleDB数据库 · Timescale同时提供:Timescale License
- TypeScript语言与运行时 · Microsoft
- vLLMAI 模型 · PyTorch Foundation
曾经使用、后来改掉的项目
- 2022年9月7日Akka→ BSL-1.1
- 2019年6月4日CockroachDB→ BSL-1.1
- 2021年1月14日Elasticsearch→ SSPL-1.0 / ELv2
- 2021年4月20日Grafana→ AGPL-3.0
- 2021年4月20日Grafana Loki→ AGPL-3.0
- 2021年1月14日Kibana→ SSPL-1.0 / ELv2
- 2021年4月19日MinIO→ AGPL-3.0
- 2023年11月6日Synapse (Matrix)→ AGPL-3.0
允许
- 商业使用
- 修改
- 分发
- 私人使用
- 专利授权
义务
- 保留版权声明
- 标注修改
限制
- 不承担责任
- 不提供担保
- 不授予商标权
极端场景 · 代码许可证
- A1可以云厂商把你的项目做成托管服务售卖
- A2可以fork 后闭源分发竞品须标注修改
- A3可以嵌入闭源 SaaS 后端(不分发)
- A4可以链接进闭源 App / 固件分发
- A5许可证阻止用你的名字/商标宣传改版
- A6可以原样打包收费售卖
- B1许可证阻止起诉作者专利侵权后继续使用专利授权终止
- B2许可证阻止贡献者对用户主张其代码中的专利明示专利授权
- B3未约定跨法域纠纷,适用法律/管辖
- C1有条件作者日后改协议/卖商业授权(贡献者未签 CLA)同 MIT
- C2可以代码被并入 GPL-3.0 项目但不兼容 GPL-2.0
- C3许可证阻止用了 GPL-3.0 依赖,整体仍以此协议发布
- C4可以项目停更,他人 fork 接手
- C5许可证阻止作者只禁止大公司/竞争对手使用
- C6未约定关键代码由公司员工写、公司不同意开源
- D1许可证阻止删除版权/署名声明
- D2许可证阻止修改文件不标注修改
- D3可以内部修改、不分发也不对外服务
- D4可以用于军事/监控等作者不认同的用途
- D5未约定被受制裁实体使用
- D6未约定代码被用于训练 AI 模型
最坏情况雷达图
- 1防白嫖0
- 2防闭源0
- 3专利保护100
- 4企业采纳阻力0
- 5改协议难度50
由场景矩阵自动计算。分数高表示该属性更强,不代表“更好”。
极端场景 · 模型与数据许可
最坏情况雷达图
- 1滥用控制0
- 2衍生控制0
- 3商用控制0
- 4企业采纳阻力0
由场景矩阵自动计算。分数高表示该属性更强,不代表“更好”。
与其他许可证对比…
- 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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