# Licensing limitations of ‘transformers’?

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I am interested from a professional standpoint in the use of huggingface transformers within the ‘transformers’ python module. From a corporate use standpoint are there any restrictions on the use of these open source models? Licensing or limitations of any sort? In either case, is there an authoritative source to state what is limited for corporate use and what is freely usable by anyone?