The open-weight licence trap: Apache 2.0 vs. the community-licence model

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Why "Llama community" and "Gemma terms" aren't the same as Apache 2.0, and why European procurement is starting to notice Welcome to LLM Radar. Independent evaluation of API providers and open-weight models against European hosting, GDPR and licensing requirements. Updated monthly, sourced from official documentation. I've been tracking open-weight model licences on LLM Radar since early 2025, and for a long time I treated "open-weight" as a single category. It isn't.