Llama 4 Community License Agreement
Also known as LLAMA 4 Community License, Llama 4 Community License, Llama 4 Community License Agreement, Llama-4-Community-License, llama4.
- Commercial use
- allowed
- Share alike
- required
- Attribution
- required (keep the copyright and license notices)
Permissions
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Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
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Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
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Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.
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Duties
- Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
- Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
- Include notice file from the text Carrying a named notice file of the original work into every redistributed copy and every derivative work.
- Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
- Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.
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Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
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Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.
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Network use trigger from the text Making the work available over a network, deploying it or providing a service with it.
Duties
- Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
- Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
- Include notice file from the text Carrying a named notice file of the original work into every redistributed copy and every derivative work.
- Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
- Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.
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Use for model training from the text Using the licensed material to train, validate or tune an automated system that learns from data.
Duties
- Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
Prohibitions
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Change license from the text Not permitted: Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
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Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.
License-wide duties
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Export control notice from the text Complying with the export and import laws that reach the work, and passing the notice of them on to every recipient.
Further terms
These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.
- Patent license ends if you sue
- Yes. Not a ban on suing: a patent claim over the work ends the patent license, or the whole license, as the text provides.
- Field of use restriction
- use that complies with applicable laws and regulations and adheres to the Acceptable Use Policy for the Llama Materials
- Governing law
- the laws of the State of California
- Reciprocity scope
- the Llama Materials and any derivative works thereof, which a copy of this Agreement must accompany
- Terminates on breach
- Yes
Clauses
Warranty disclaimer
3. Disclaimer of Warranty. UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE LLAMA MATERIALS AND ANY OUTPUT AND RESULTS THEREFROM ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, AND META DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, BOTH EXPRESS AND IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE APPROPRIATENESS OF USING OR REDISTRIBUTING THE LLAMA MATERIALS AND ASSUME ANY RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR USE OF THE LLAMA MATERIALS AND ANY OUTPUT AND RESULTS.
Limitation of liability
4. Limitation of Liability. IN NO EVENT WILL META OR ITS AFFILIATES BE LIABLE UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, PRODUCTS LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, EVEN IF META OR ITS AFFILIATES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING.
Additional clauses
“Agreement” means the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, distribution and modification of the Llama Materials set forth herein. “Documentation” means the specifications, manuals and documentation accompanying Llama 4 distributed by Meta at https://www.llama.com/docs/overview. “Licensee” or “you” means you, or your employer or any other person or entity (if you are entering into this Agreement on such person or entity’s behalf), of the age required under applicable laws, rules or regulations to provide legal consent and that has legal authority to bind your employer or such other person or entity if you are entering in this Agreement on their behalf. “Llama 4” means the foundational large language models and software and algorithms, including machine-learning model code, trained model weights, inference-enabling code, training-enabling code, fine-tuning enabling code and other elements of the foregoing distributed by Meta at https://www.llama.com/llama-downloads. “Llama Materials” means, collectively, Meta’s proprietary Llama 4 and Documentation (and any portion thereof) made available under this Agreement. “Meta” or “we” means Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (if you are located in or, if you are an entity, your principal place of business is in the EEA or Switzerland) and Meta Platforms, Inc. (if you are located outside of the EEA or Switzerland).
Info
- Target asset types
- Dataset, Software
- Region / jurisdiction
- Worldwide
- Validity
- Perpetual
- Source
- https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/llama4/LICENSE
- Legal code
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meta-llama/llama-models/main/models/llama4/LICENSE
- This description is published under
- https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
- Publisher
- Meta Platforms, Inc.
- SPDX identifier
llama4(provisional, the record declares none)- DALICC identifier
Llama-4-Community-License
This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.
History
This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.
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Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur
The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, corrected it against its text on 2026-09-24, named the license the record itself is published under and removed the quotes that do not name the act they support.
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permission dalicc:networkUseTrigger with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:includeNoticeFile]was
permission dalicc:networkUseTrigger with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:includeNoticeFile]Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "You must retain in all copies of the Llama Materials that you distribute the following attribution notice within a “Notice” text file distributed as a part of such copies: “Llama 4 is licensed under the Llama 4 Community License, Copyright © Meta Platforms, Inc." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "If you distribute or make available the Llama Materials (or any derivative works thereof), or a product or service (including another AI model) that contains any of them, you shall (A) provide a copy of this Agreement with any such Llama Materials; and (B) prominently display “Built with Llama” on a related website, user interface, blogpost, about page, or product documentation." Its duty dalicc:includeNoticeFile quotes "You must retain in all copies of the Llama Materials that you distribute the following attribution notice within a “Notice” text file distributed as a part of such copies: “Llama 4 is licensed under the Llama 4 Community License, Copyright © Meta Platforms, Inc."
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permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:includeNoticeFile]was
permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:includeNoticeFile]Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "You must retain in all copies of the Llama Materials that you distribute the following attribution notice within a “Notice” text file distributed as a part of such copies: “Llama 4 is licensed under the Llama 4 Community License, Copyright © Meta Platforms, Inc." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "If you distribute or make available the Llama Materials (or any derivative works thereof), or a product or service (including another AI model) that contains any of them, you shall (A) provide a copy of this Agreement with any such Llama Materials; and (B) prominently display “Built with Llama” on a related website, user interface, blogpost, about page, or product documentation." Its duty dalicc:includeNoticeFile quotes "You must retain in all copies of the Llama Materials that you distribute the following attribution notice within a “Notice” text file distributed as a part of such copies: “Llama 4 is licensed under the Llama 4 Community License, Copyright © Meta Platforms, Inc."
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prohibition dalicc:promotewas
prohibition dalicc:promoteManual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "No trademark licenses are granted under this Agreement, and in connection with the Llama Materials, neither Meta nor Licensee may use any name or mark owned by or associated with the other or any of its affiliates, except as required for reasonable and customary use in describing and redistributing the Llama Materials or as set forth in this Section 5(a)."
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permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]Manual edit Clause 1.b.i reads: "If you distribute or make available the Llama Materials (or any derivative works thereof), or a product or service (including another AI model) that contains any of them, you shall (A) provide a copy of this Agreement with any such Llama Materials; and (B) prominently display “Built with Llama” on a related website, user interface, blogpost, about page, or product documentation." A derivative may be offered under other terms as long as the agreement travels with the Llama Materials.
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permission dalicc:networkUseTrigger with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:includeNoticeFile]was
permission dalicc:networkUseTrigger with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:includeNoticeFile]Manual edit The cc:ShareAlike duty is removed: the text asks that a copy of the agreement accompanies the Llama Materials and derivative works, which the cc:Notice duty states, and does not require a derivative to be licensed under the agreement.
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permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:includeNoticeFile]was
permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:includeNoticeFile]Manual edit The cc:ShareAlike duty is removed: the text asks that a copy of the agreement accompanies the Llama Materials and derivative works, which the cc:Notice duty states, and does not require a derivative to be licensed under the agreement.
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prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicenseManual edit The text asks that a copy of the agreement travels with the Llama Materials; it does not bar offering a derivative under other terms.
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dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
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permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]was
permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of permission dalicc:ChangeLicense: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
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Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Model licences).
Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.
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