Apache License

The Apache License is a permissive open-source software license from the Apache Software Foundation that allows commercial use, modification and redistribution.

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The Apache License is a permissive open-source license published by the Apache Software Foundation. Version 2.0, released in 2004, is the version in wide use and is often written as Apache-2.0. It allows commercial use, modification and redistribution as long as copyright and license notices are kept, and it grants users an explicit patent license from contributors.

It is widely used by open-source software projects, and in AI it is a common license for open-weight models and developer tools.

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