Reference
Licences
"Open weights" is not a licence. These are the actual terms, hand-parsed — always read the full text before shipping.
Apache License 2.0Apache-2.0Open, few conditionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓98 modelsCustom licenceOpen, with restrictionscustom — review terms40 modelsMIT LicenseMITOpen, few conditionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓39 modelsProprietary (API access only)Closed, vendor termscommercial ✓redistribute ✗derivatives ✗19 modelsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0CC-BY-4.0Open, few conditionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓16 modelsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0CC-BY-NC-4.0Open, with restrictionscommercial ✗redistribute ✓derivatives ✓9 modelsLlama 3 Community LicenseOpen, with restrictionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓6 modelsGemma Terms of UseOpen, with restrictionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓5 modelsLlama 3.1 Community LicenseOpen, with restrictionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓2 modelsLlama 3.2 Community LicenseOpen, with restrictionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓2 modelsOpenMDW 1.1openmdw-1.1Open, with restrictionscustom — review terms2 modelsCC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0Open, with restrictionscommercial ✗redistribute ✓derivatives ✓1 modelsLlama 3.3 Community Licensellama3.3Open, with restrictionscustom — review terms1 models
Terms with no model pointing at them (11)
We hold these determinations; nothing we list currently points at them. A gap on our side, not a verdict on the licence.
Applied Brain Research Open Licenseapplied-brain-research-open-licenseOpen, with restrictionscustom — review termsno model yetBigScience OpenRAIL-MOpen, with restrictionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓no model yetBSD 3-ClauseBSD-3-ClauseOpen, few conditionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓no model yetDeepSeek LicenseOpen, with restrictionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓no model yetLlama 2 Community LicenseOpen, with restrictionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓no model yetLlama 4 Community LicenseOpen, with restrictionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓no model yetMistral AI Non-Production LicenseOpen, with restrictionscommercial ✗redistribute ✗derivatives ✓no model yetMistral AI Research LicenseOpen, with restrictionscommercial ✗redistribute ✓derivatives ✓no model yetNVIDIA Open Model Licensenvidia-open-model-licenseOpen, with restrictionscustom — review termsno model yetOpenRAILOpen, with restrictionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓no model yetQwen License (Tongyi Qianwen)Open, with restrictionscommercial ✓redistribute ✓derivatives ✓no model yet