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 linkarXiv:2309.16609
Technical report
Use the Qwen technical report citation when referencing the model family in published work.
Open linkComplete documentation route map
The docs surface stays mirrored in a fixed order, with the current page highlighted inside the shared route map.
Requirements, quickstart, and deployment-oriented install notes for the historical Qwen release line.
Go to pageThe original Qwen model family with context windows, memory guidance, and public checkpoint entry points.
Go to pageHistorical performance tables for the original Qwen release line, preserved with source attribution.
Go to pageWeb UI, CLI demo, vLLM, FastChat, and the deployment touchpoints highlighted by the original README.
Go to pageOpenAI-compatible local API patterns, function calling, and managed API references for the original Qwen line.
Go to pageSystem prompt positioning, ReAct-style tooling, function calling, and code-interpreter benchmarks from the original README.
Go to pageLong-context techniques and evaluation blocks for the original Qwen release line.
Go to pageA public FAQ layer derived from the README-only source surface and the boundary conditions stated by the blueprint.
Go to pageSource-code licensing, model-license notes, and citation text mirrored from the original Qwen README.
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