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Enterprise Management and Licensing Agreement Dify: Developed by LangGenius, Inc., a venture-backed startup

Enterprise Management and Licensing Agreement Dify: Developed by LangGenius, Inc., a venture-backed startup founded in 2023. License Agreement: Uses the "Dify Open Source Licens...

July 28, 2025 · 1 min read

Enterprise Management and Licensing Agreement Dify: Developed by LangGenius, Inc., a venture-backed startup founded in

  • License Agreement: Uses the "Dify Open Source License", which is based on Apache
  • 0, but with additional terms. This requires careful legal review by the user. Business model: Provides Dify Cloud cloud service and enterprise version, which is a standard open-source core (Open-Core) business model. Coze: It is the open source version of ByteDance’s commercial Coze platform. License: Uses the standard Apache
  • 0 license, which is a more permissive and widely known license. Business model: The open source project serves as a traffic entrance and ecological construction tool for its commercial version of the Coze platform. This is a common strategy for large technology companies.

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