Common incompatible license combinations
Incompatible Licenses
License Terms
Frequency
SPDX→AI
Fine-tune
Apache 2.0 LLaMA3
Include License, Trademark Notice, Ethical Constraints, Commercial Scale Limit, Anti-Distillation
14,873
Fine-tune
Apache 2.0 OpenRAIL
Pass-through Restriction, Include License
996
Quantize
CC-BY-NC-4.0 LLaMA 3.1
Include License, Trademark Notice, Ethical Constraints, Commercial Scale Limit, Anti-Distillation
261
Adapter
MIT OpenRAIL
Pass-through Restriction, Include License
196
Fine-tune
GPL 3.0 OpenRAIL
Reciprocal Obligation, Disclosure Source/Weights, Ethical Constraints, Include License
104
SPDX→SPDX
Main-Data
Apache 2.0 CC-BY-NC-4.0
Commercial Scale Limit
2,417
Quantize
Apache 2.0 CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Commercial Scale Limit, Reciprocal Obligation
465
Fine-tune
Apache 2.0 GPL 3.0
Reciprocal Obligation, Disclosure Source/Weights, Include License
249
Adapter
MIT GPL 3.0
Reciprocal Obligation, Disclosure Source/Weights, Include License
94
Fine-tune
MIT CC-BY-NC-4.0
Commercial Scale Limit
92
AI→SPDX
Fine-tune
CreativeML-OpenRAIL-M CC-BY-NC-4.0
Commercial Scale Limit
1,569
Merge
LLaMA3.1 (LLaMA3.1, CC-BY-NC-4.0)
Include License, Trademark Notice, Commercial Scale Limit
525
Merge
OpenRAIL GPL 3.0
Reciprocal Obligation, Disclosure Source/Weights, Include License
111
Fine-tune
LLaMA3.1 CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Commercial Scale Limit, Reciprocal Obligation
81
Fine-tune
Creativeml-OpenRAIL-M CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Pass-through Restriction
74
AI→AI
Fine-tune
CreativeML-OpenRAIL-M Gemma
Pass-through Restriction, Include License
84
Fine-tune
CreativeML-OpenRAIL-M LLaMA 3
Include License, Trademark Notice, Ethical Constraints, Commercial Scale Limit, Anti-Distillation
37
Fine-tune
Gemma LLaMA 3.1
Include License, Trademark Notice, Ethical Constraints, Commercial Scale Limit, Anti-Distillation
34
Fine-tune
OpenRAIL-M LLaMA 2
Pass-through Restrictions,Include License
13
Fine-tune
OpenRAIL-M LLaMA 3.1
Pass-through Restrictions,Include License
10
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  • 1. distribute

    GPL-3.0 requires derivative works to be released under GPL; Apache-2.0 allows redistribution and modification with notice and may use different licenses for derivatives.

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