License

Separate source-code licensing from model-use licensing

The original README clearly distinguishes the Apache 2.0 source-code license from the model-specific Tongyi Qianwen agreements used for different public model families.

Apache 2.0Model-specific termsCitation block

License framing

The upstream README says the source code in `QwenLM/Qwen` is licensed under Apache 2.0.

For model usage, the README points to model-specific Tongyi Qianwen license agreements hosted alongside the relevant Hugging Face and ModelScope repositories.

Qwen-72B, Qwen-14B, and Qwen-7B use the Tongyi Qianwen license agreement
Qwen-1.8B uses the Tongyi Qianwen research license agreement
Commercial use expectations differ by model family

Citation

@article{qwen,
  title={Qwen Technical Report},
  author={Jinze Bai and Shuai Bai and Yunfei Chu and Zeyu Cui and Kai Dang and Xiaodong Deng and Yang Fan and Wenbin Ge and Yu Han and Fei Huang and Binyuan Hui and Luo Ji and Mei Li and Junyang Lin and Runji Lin and Dayiheng Liu and Gao Liu and Chengqiang Lu and Keming Lu and Jianxin Ma and Rui Men and Xingzhang Ren and Xuancheng Ren and Chuanqi Tan and Sinan Tan and Jianhong Tu and Peng Wang and Shijie Wang and Wei Wang and Shengguang Wu and Benfeng Xu and Jin Xu and An Yang and Hao Yang and Jian Yang and Shusheng Yang and Yang Yao and Bowen Yu and Hongyi Yuan and Zheng Yuan and Jianwei Zhang and Xingxuan Zhang and Yichang Zhang and Zhenru Zhang and Chang Zhou and Jingren Zhou and Xiaohuan Zhou and Tianhang Zhu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16609},
  year={2023}
}

Relevant links

Apache 2.0 source code

Upstream repository

Review the canonical repo when you need the exact source-code licensing text and adjacent model links.

Open link

arXiv:2309.16609

Technical report

Use the Qwen technical report citation when referencing the model family in published work.

Open link

Source anchors

README: citation and license agreement README_CN: citation and license agreement