The Qwen team released Qwen3 under the Apache License 2.0, which is on the Open Source Initiative’s approved list; Qwen-7B and Qwen2-72B use the Tongyi Qianwen License Agreement, which is not.
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On open weightsWe are open-weighting two MoE models: Qwen3-235B-A22B, a large model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion activated parameters, and Qwen3-30B-A3B, a smaller MoE model with 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion activated parameters. Additionally, six dense models are also open-weighted, including Qwen3-32B, Qwen3-14B, Qwen3-8B, Qwen3-4B, Qwen3-1.7B, and Qwen3-0.6B, under Apache 2.0 license.
The post lists Qwen3-235B-A22B among the models it says are open-weighted under the Apache 2.0 license. On June 7, 2024, Qwen2-72B had remained on the Qianwen License. The LICENSE file opened for this quote is on Qwen/Qwen3-8B. Its appendix reads “Copyright 2024 Alibaba Cloud” and “Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.”
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On open weightsThis time, we change the licenses of our models to different ones. While Qwen2-72B as well as its instruction-tuned models still uses the original Qianwen License, all other models, including Qwen2-0.5B, Qwen2-1.5B, Qwen2-7B, and Qwen2-57B-A14B, turn to adopt Apache 2.0!
The license object above is the Apache 2.0 file on Qwen2-7B. It does not cover Qwen2-72B. The post says Qwen2-72B and its instruction-tuned models still use the original Qianwen License. That file’s 100 million monthly active user clause is the one quoted on the August 3, 2023 Tongyi Qianwen entry. The Qwen2-7B LICENSE appendix reads “Copyright 2024 Alibaba Cloud.”
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