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Apache 2.0
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MIT
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Llama Community License
Good for: Useful for serious assistants and multimodal workflows when Meta access is approved.
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BigCode OpenRAIL-M
Good for: Strong fit for code assistants and repository-specific completion.
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Gemma / Gemini Terms
Good for: Gemma is the open-weight tuning path. Gemini is the managed API path.
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Custom Hugging Face license
Good for: Best for specialized languages, industries, vision-language, embeddings, or domain models.
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