# Deterministic Software License Compatibility & AI Weights Permissiveness Matrix

- **Host Node:** https://licensematrix.org
- **Evaluation Period:** 2026-11-03
- **Geography:** Global
- **Auditing Framework:** E.V.A. Framework (Commercial Permissiveness & IP Risk Index) (Proprietary Evaluation Protocol — 40% Friction / 30% Rigor / 30% Scale) · *Governed by END_OF_SEARCHING Research Lab*

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## Executive Summary
Technical evaluation resolving commercial software dilemmas: copyleft viral boundaries, static vs dynamic linking obligations, patent retaliation triggers, and foundational AI weights distillation restrictions.

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## Deterministic Interoperability Grid

| Inbound License | Static Link (Closed App) | Dynamic Link (.so) | Microservice (REST/gRPC) | AI Synthetic Distillation |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| MIT | ALLOWED | ALLOWED | ALLOWED | ALLOWED |
| Apache 2.0 | ALLOWED | ALLOWED | ALLOWED | ALLOWED |
| BSD 3-Clause | ALLOWED | ALLOWED | ALLOWED | ALLOWED |
| DeepSeek (MIT) | ALLOWED | ALLOWED | ALLOWED | ALLOWED |
| MPL-2.0 | CONDITIONAL (File boundary) | ALLOWED | ALLOWED | ALLOWED |
| LGPL-3.0 | FORBIDDEN (Unless .o provided) | ALLOWED | ALLOWED | ALLOWED |
| Llama Community | ALLOWED | ALLOWED | CONDITIONAL (<700M MAU) | FORBIDDEN (Sec. 1.b.v) |
| GPL-3.0 | FORBIDDEN | FORBIDDEN | ALLOWED (IPC/Network) | ALLOWED |
| GPL-2.0 | FORBIDDEN | FORBIDDEN | ALLOWED (IPC/Network) | ALLOWED |
| AGPL-3.0 | FORBIDDEN | FORBIDDEN | CONDITIONAL (Unmodified only) | ALLOWED |

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## Platform Evaluations
### Apache License 2.0 -- Score: 99/100
Status: PERMISSIVE_PATENT_SHIELDED | Static: ALLOWED | Dynamic: ALLOWED | Microservice: ALLOWED | Distillation: ALLOWED. Compatible for direct static and dynamic linking within closed commercial proprietary architectures without copyleft source code disclosure obligations, yet unilaterally incompatible with GPL-2.0-only codebases. Under Section 3 (Grant of Patent License), the explicit patent grant and defensive patent termination trigger automatically revoke patent rights if a licensee initiates patent litigation, creating a direct legal conflict with GPLv2 Section 6 (which forbids imposing additional restrictions), while remaining fully compatible with GPLv3 under Free Software Foundation doctrine alongside mandatory preservation of attribution notices, Section 4(b) file modification tracking, and Section 4(d) NOTICE file propagation (friction: 39/40, rigor: 30/30, scale: 30/30). Strategic Synthesis by END_OF_SEARCHING Research Lab concludes that enterprise architectures should standardize on Apache 2.0 for maximum patent immunity and unrestricted AI deployment while isolating legacy GPL-2.0-only components into decoupled IPC or network microservices.
- Canonical Entity: https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html
- Verification Source: https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0

### MIT License -- Score: 94/100
Status: PERMISSIVE_UNRESTRICTED | Static: ALLOWED | Dynamic: ALLOWED | Microservice: ALLOWED | Distillation: ALLOWED. Compatible without copyleft restrictions for direct static linking, dynamic linking, and source-level merging into closed commercial proprietary binaries and SaaS platforms. Governed by a single-paragraph grant of rights authorizing perpetual use, copying, modification, merging, publication, distribution, sublicensing, and sale of software copies conditioned solely on retaining the original copyright notice and liability disclaimer, the license imposes zero viral obligations but lacks an express patent license grant or defensive patent retaliation clause (friction: 40/40, rigor: 24/30, scale: 30/30). Strategic Synthesis by END_OF_SEARCHING Research Lab concludes that while MIT provides zero-friction integration for proprietary compilation and unrestricted AI training pipelines, high-stakes enterprise deployments must account for the absence of explicit statutory patent shielding from upstream contributors.
- Canonical Entity: https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html
- Verification Source: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

### BSD 3-Clause License -- Score: 93/100
Status: PERMISSIVE_NON_ENDORSEMENT | Static: ALLOWED | Dynamic: ALLOWED | Microservice: ALLOWED | Distillation: ALLOWED. Compatible for direct compilation, static linking, dynamic linking, and routine embedding within closed commercial proprietary binaries without source disclosure mandates. Clauses 1 and 2 require reproducing copyright notices and disclaimers across source and binary redistributions, while Clause 3 (Non-Endorsement Clause) strictly prohibits leveraging the names of the copyright holder or contributors to endorse or promote derived commercial products without prior written permission, operating without an express patent grant clause (friction: 39/40, rigor: 24/30, scale: 30/30). Strategic Synthesis by END_OF_SEARCHING Research Lab concludes that BSD 3-Clause enables seamless closed-source binary integration and unrestricted enterprise AI scaling provided compliance pipelines enforce automated checks on marketing collateral under Clause 3 and assess implied patent risk.
- Canonical Entity: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.html
- Verification Source: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

### DeepSeek / OpenRAIL Permissive Weights -- Score: 88/100
Status: CONDITIONAL_ARTIFACT_SPLIT | Static: ALLOWED | Dynamic: ALLOWED | Microservice: ALLOWED | Distillation: ALLOWED (MIT variants). Conditional on artifact generation: fully compatible without distillation blocks or MAU thresholds for model generations released under the MIT License (such as DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1), or conditional on behavioral acceptable-use compliance for weights governed by DeepSeek License v1 and OpenRAIL-M frameworks. While MIT-licensed weight artifacts eliminate downstream synthetic data restrictions and commercial scale caps, models subject to OpenRAIL-M Section 5 and Annex A (Use-based Restrictions) enforce perpetual behavioral prohibitions against military use, disinformation, exploitation, and biometric surveillance that must be contractually propagated to all downstream redistributions and derivatives (friction: 36/40, rigor: 24/30, scale: 28/30). Strategic Synthesis by END_OF_SEARCHING Research Lab concludes that MIT-governed DeepSeek weights offer premier freedom for synthetic model distillation and proprietary quantization, whereas OpenRAIL-M variants require mandatory API inference guardrails and downstream contractual flow-down.
- Canonical Entity: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131841324
- Verification Source: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

### Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0) -- Score: 87/100
Status: WEAK_FILE_COPYLEFT | Static: CONDITIONAL (File boundary) | Dynamic: ALLOWED | Microservice: ALLOWED | Distillation: ALLOWED. Conditional with strict file-level isolation (weak file-based copyleft) enabling combination with closed commercial proprietary code into a single compiled binary. Under Section 1.12 (Larger Work), Section 3.1 (Distribution of Source Form), and Section 3.3 (Distribution of a Larger Work), copyleft obligations are strictly confined to original or modified MPL-2.0 files (Covered Software), while Section 2.1 provides an express patent grant and Section 5.2 establishes defensive patent retaliation upon litigation (friction: 29/40, rigor: 29/30, scale: 29/30). Strategic Synthesis by END_OF_SEARCHING Research Lab concludes that MPL-2.0 allows safe static or dynamic linking into proprietary executables provided build architectures keep proprietary logic in physically separate source files and publish modifications made strictly to MPL-2.0 files.
- Canonical Entity: https://spdx.org/licenses/MPL-2.0.html
- Verification Source: https://opensource.org/licenses/MPL-2.0

### GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPL-3.0) -- Score: 75/100
Status: COPYLEFT_RELINK_MANDATE | Static: FORBIDDEN (Unless .o provided) | Dynamic: ALLOWED (.so/.dll) | Microservice: ALLOWED | Distillation: ALLOWED. Conditional with strict architectural isolation requiring dynamic linking via shared libraries (.so, .dll, .dylib) or explicit provision of proprietary object code (.o, .obj) to enable end-user relinking. Governed by Section 4(d)(0) and Section 4(d)(1) in conjunction with GPLv3 Section 6 (Installation Information and anti-Tivoization), licensees must allow users to modify the LGPLv3 library and relink it into the combined work, while Section 3 caps header file templates and inline functions at ten lines before triggering copyleft across the host binary (friction: 22/40, rigor: 27/30, scale: 26/30). Strategic Synthesis by END_OF_SEARCHING Research Lab concludes that commercial closed-source applications must enforce dynamic linking boundaries and avoid static compilation on locked consumer hardware where disclosing cryptographic installation keys is operationally unfeasible.
- Canonical Entity: https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0-only.html
- Verification Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html

### Llama Community License (Meta Open Weights) -- Score: 69/100
Status: SCALE_RESTRICTED_SYNTHETIC_BLOCK | Static: ALLOWED | Dynamic: ALLOWED | Microservice: CONDITIONAL (<700M MAU) | Distillation: FORBIDDEN (Sec. 1.b.v). Conditional with strict contractual scale thresholds, mandatory naming attribution, and explicit prohibitions against competitive model training or synthetic distillation. While weights and fine-tuned LoRA adapters can be embedded into closed proprietary software without source code copyleft, Section 1(b)(v) strictly forbids using Llama materials or inference outputs to train, distill, or improve non-Llama large language models, and Section 2 (Additional Commercial Terms) revokes automatic commercial rights if the licensee or its affiliates exceeded 700 million monthly active users (MAU) in the calendar month preceding the model release date (friction: 34/40, rigor: 21/30, scale: 14/30). Strategic Synthesis by END_OF_SEARCHING Research Lab concludes that engineering teams must enforce strict telemetry and output isolation to prevent Llama synthetic data from contaminating non-Llama training pipelines, prefix distributed derivative models with 'Llama', and secure a bespoke commercial license from Meta prior to crossing the 700M MAU boundary.
- Canonical Entity: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120736120
- Verification Source: https://ai.meta.com/resources/license/

### GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3.0) -- Score: 62/100
Status: STRONG_COPYLEFT_TIVOIZATION_LOCK | Static: FORBIDDEN | Dynamic: FORBIDDEN | Microservice: ALLOWED (IPC/Net) | Distillation: ALLOWED. Incompatible for direct compilation, static linking, or dynamic linking within closed commercial proprietary binaries distributed to third parties or embedded in consumer hardware. Section 5(c) extends strong copyleft across the entire distributed work, Section 6 mandates providing 'Installation Information' and cryptographic authorization keys to allow running modified software on any 'User Product' (anti-Tivoization clause), and Section 11 provides an explicit patent license with defensive patent retaliation (friction: 12/40, rigor: 26/30, scale: 24/30). Strategic Synthesis by END_OF_SEARCHING Research Lab concludes that distributed proprietary systems must isolate GPLv3 components into separate operating system processes communicating solely via IPC or network APIs, whereas internal cloud backend execution remains unaffected because remote network interaction alone does not trigger Section 5 distribution obligations.
- Canonical Entity: https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-only.html
- Verification Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

### GNU General Public License v2 (GPL-2.0) -- Score: 54/100
Status: STRONG_COPYLEFT_APACHE_CLASH | Static: FORBIDDEN | Dynamic: FORBIDDEN | Microservice: ALLOWED (IPC/Net) | Distillation: ALLOWED. Incompatible for direct integration, static linking, or dynamic linking within the same memory address space of distributed closed commercial proprietary binaries. Section 2(b) enforces strong copyleft requiring the entirety of any distributed derivative or combined work to be licensed under GPLv2, while Section 6 strictly prohibits imposing any further restrictions on the rights granted by the license, creating an irreconcilable legal conflict with the patent termination clauses of Apache License 2.0 (friction: 11/40, rigor: 19/30, scale: 24/30). Strategic Synthesis by END_OF_SEARCHING Research Lab concludes that proprietary architectures must quarantine GPLv2 executables into separate OS processes interacting exclusively through standard IPC, network sockets, pipes, or fork/exec command-line invocations without sharing internal compiler data structures.
- Canonical Entity: https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-only.html
- Verification Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

### GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0) -- Score: 42/100
Status: NETWORK_COPYLEFT_TRIGGER | Static: FORBIDDEN | Dynamic: FORBIDDEN | Microservice: CONDITIONAL (Unmodified Only) | Distillation: ALLOWED. Incompatible for direct integration, linking, or source modification within closed commercial SaaS platforms, tightly coupled microservices, or proprietary binary distributions. Section 13 (Remote Network Interaction) closes the cloud SaaS loophole by stipulating that if the covered program is modified, the operator must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network no-charge access to the Corresponding Source of the deployed version (friction: 5/40, rigor: 25/30, scale: 12/30). Strategic Synthesis by END_OF_SEARCHING Research Lab concludes that avoiding viral contamination of proprietary cloud platforms requires running AGPLv3 components completely unmodified inside isolated infrastructure containers or microservices communicating strictly over standard network protocols (REST, gRPC, TCP/IP) without linking proprietary libraries or sharing memory address spaces.
- Canonical Entity: https://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0-only.html
- Verification Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

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