LanguageTool is published under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). For more detailed license information, see COPYING.txt and README.md. This is the list of libraries used by LanguageTool and their licenses: annotations.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|com.intellij.annotations berkeleylm.jar: Apache License 2.0, https://code.google.com/p/berkeleylm/ cjftransform.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://code.google.com/p/cjftransform/ commons-*: Apache License 2.0, http://commons.apache.org/lang/ guava.jar: Apache License 2.0, https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/ hamcrest-core.jar: BSD License, https://github.com/hamcrest hunspell-native-libs.jar: GPL/LGPL/MPL triple license, http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ hppc.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://labs.carrotsearch.com/hppc.html ictclas4j: Apache License 2.0, http://code.google.com/p/ictclas4j/ jakarta-regexp.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/ jna.jar: LGPL version 2.1 or later, or Apache License 2.0, https://github.com/twall/jna jopt-simple.jar: MIT License, http://pholser.github.io/jopt-simple/ jsonic.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://jsonic.sourceforge.jp/ junit.jar: Common Public License v 1.0, CPL.txt, http://www.junit.org jwordsplitter.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://www.danielnaber.de/jwordsplitter/ language-detector.jar: Apache License 2.0, https://github.com/optimaize/language-detector log4j.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/ lucene-analyzers-common|core|queries|sandbox|test-framework.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://lucene.apache.org lucene-gosen-ipadic.jar: LGPL v2.1, http://code.google.com/p/lucene-gosen/ morfologik-*.jar: Morfologik-license.txt, http://morfologik.blogspot.com, http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/dweiss opennlp-*: Apache License 2.0, http://opennlp.apache.org, http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/models-1.5 ptk-common.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://sweble.org rats-runtime.jar: LGPL version 2.1, http://cs.nyu.edu/rgrimm/xtc/ segment.jar: segment-license.txt, http://sourceforge.net/projects/segment/ slf4j-api.jar: MIT License, http://www.slf4j.org slf4j-nop.jar: MIT License, http://www.slf4j.org swc-engine.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://sweble.org swc-parser-lazy.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://sweble.org utils.jar: part of Sweble, Apache License 2.0, http://sweble.org Other resources like dictionaries are not technically libraries, they may have different licenses (including GPL) without affecting LanguageTool's licensing. For the dictionaries that are used for spell checking, see ./org/languagetool/resource//hunspell/README* and ./org/languagetool/resource//spelling/README* ( = language code).