The 70 `license:` identifiers a Hugging Face model card can carry, each answered for the four questions a commercial release turns on — may we sell it, what must we display, what must our derivative be licensed as, which uses stay forbidden — 280 rows that each name the licence clause they come from, because the Hub shows you the tag but never what the tag permits, and a non-commercial tag noticed after launch is already inside the product.
280 rows · 6 columns. First 25 shown.
| license_id | license_family | question | answer | condition | clause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| apache-2.0 | permissive | commercial_use | yes | Perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free grant with no limit on purpose; you may sell copies and serve the model in a paid product. | Grant of Copyright License |
| mit | permissive | commercial_use | yes | Permission is granted without restriction, expressly including the right to sell copies and to sublicense. | Permission Notice |
| bsd | ambiguous | commercial_use | unspecified | The tag does not say which BSD variant applies; open the LICENSE file in the repository before relying on it. | Identifier only |
| bsd-2-clause | permissive | commercial_use | yes | Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted for any purpose, commercial included. | Redistribution Conditions |
| bsd-3-clause | permissive | commercial_use | yes | Same permission as the 2-clause form; commercial purpose is unrestricted. | Redistribution Conditions |
| bsd-3-clause-clear | permissive | commercial_use | yes | Commercial use is permitted, but this variant grants no patent rights expressly or by implication. | Patent Rights Disclaimer |
| isc | permissive | commercial_use | yes | Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute for any purpose, with or without fee. | Permission Notice |
| zlib | permissive | commercial_use | yes | The text grants use for any purpose, including commercial applications. | Permission Notice |
| ncsa | permissive | commercial_use | yes | Permission to deal in the work without restriction, including selling copies. | Permission Notice |
| postgresql | permissive | commercial_use | yes | Use, copying, modification and distribution for any purpose, without fee, are permitted. | Permission Notice |
| unlicense | public-domain | commercial_use | yes | The work is released into the public domain; commercial use is unrestricted. | Public Domain Dedication |
| wtfpl | permissive | commercial_use | yes | Copying, modification and redistribution are permitted with no conditions attached. | Grant |
| afl-3.0 | permissive | commercial_use | yes | Royalty-free grant to use, reproduce, sell and sublicense; the patent grant ends if you bring a patent claim over the work. | Grant of Copyright License |
| artistic-2.0 | conditional-copyleft | commercial_use | yes | Commercial distribution is permitted; a Modified Version distributed commercially must still satisfy the distribution conditions. | Distribution of Modified Versions |
| ecl-2.0 | permissive | commercial_use | yes | Apache-2.0 terms with a narrowed patent grant; no limit on commercial purpose. | Grant of Copyright License |
| ms-pl | weak-copyleft | commercial_use | yes | Royalty-free grant to reproduce and distribute, commercial distribution included. | Grant of Rights |
| cc0-1.0 | public-domain | commercial_use | yes | The rights holder waives copyright and related rights worldwide; commercial use is unrestricted. | Waiver |
| pddl | public-domain | commercial_use | yes | The database is dedicated to the public domain; commercial use is unrestricted. | Public Domain Dedication |
| gpl | ambiguous | commercial_use | unspecified | The tag names no version; GPL-2.0 and GPL-3.0 differ on patents and on installation information. | Identifier only |
| gpl-2.0 | copyleft | commercial_use | yes | You may charge a fee for transferring a copy and may sell warranty protection; the copyleft duty is unaffected by price. | Verbatim Copying |
| gpl-3.0 | copyleft | commercial_use | yes | You may charge any price for conveying a copy and may offer paid support; the source duty stands regardless. | Conveying Verbatim Copies |
| lgpl | ambiguous | commercial_use | unspecified | The tag names no version (2.1 or 3.0); the rules for a combined work differ between them. | Identifier only |
| lgpl-2.1 | weak-copyleft | commercial_use | yes | Commercial use and sale are permitted, for the library itself and for a work that uses it. | Verbatim Copying |
| lgpl-3.0 | weak-copyleft | commercial_use | yes | Commercial use and sale are permitted; the LGPL adds permissions on top of GPL-3.0. | Additional Permissions |
| agpl-3.0 | network-copyleft | commercial_use | yes | You may sell copies and run the model in a paid service; the network source duty applies either way. | Conveying Verbatim Copies |
Compiled row by row from the published text of each licence itself: the SPDX licence list texts (spdx.org/licenses), the Creative Commons 2.0/2.5/3.0/4.0 legal codes (creativecommons.org/licenses), the Open Data Commons PDDL/ODC-By/ODbL texts (opendatacommons.org), the Community Data License Agreement texts (cdla.dev), the Etalab Licence Ouverte 2.0, the BigScience / BigCode / CreativeML OpenRAIL licences as published on the Hugging Face Hub, and the Meta Llama and Google Gemma community licences as published by their issuers. The `license_id` values are the identifiers accepted in Hugging Face model-card `license:` metadata. Every cell states what the licence text itself says and names the clause it says it in; no third-party compliance dataset was copied, no value was estimated, and no figure was generated. This is a transcription of licence terms for engineering review, not legal advice.
This page is the working piece. The full pack has everything below.
Copy the `license:` string off the model card, read four rows, close the review ticket — 70 identifiers, 4 questions, 280 rows, every row naming the clause it came from. A non-commercial tag
Done by hand this answer means opening 70 separate licence documents — the SPDX texts, four Creative Commons versions, the Open Data Commons and CDLA agreements, the RAIL Attachment A lists, and the Meta and Google community licen
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