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The license file of Hugging Face's transformers library is the text of the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004”
Hugging Face transformers LICENSE file (Apache License 2.0), Hugging Face, GitHub, huggingface/transformers, n.d., LICENSE, first lines.
Open the original- What it measures
- The Apache 2.0 license allows commercial use and modification, and it includes an express patent grant.
- What it does not show
- The library's license does not cover the models that run inside it. Each model on the Hugging Face Hub, such as the Whisper or Parakeet checkpoints, sets its own license.