New license request: Qwen Research License Agreement

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License Name

Qwen Research License Agreement (Release Date: September 19, 2024)

License Homepage URL

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B/blob/main/LICENSE

Reference URLs

• Raw text: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B/raw/main/LICENSE
• Same text shipped in: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct/blob/main/LICENSE and https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B/blob/main/LICENSE
• Hugging Face's license identifier table (this license has no Hub id; repos use license: other + license_name: qwen-research): https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/repositories-licenses

License Notes

• Distinct from the "Qwen License Agreement" already keyed as qwen-2024
  (Qwen2.5-72B etc.) and from tongyi-qianwen-2023: this one is the
  research/non-commercial agreement used by the 3B-class Qwen2.5 models.
  No qwen*research* key exists in LicenseDB (index.json, 2026-08-17). By
  analogy, qwen-research-2024 would fit; your call.
• Single version as far as checked: the LICENSE files in the three repos above
  are byte-identical (7,388 bytes, 1,156 words, SHA-256
  ef52482bb785733093dc9a2e8edd8e764c77d12d8e9d8f10a80c9b547d32d0f9, fetched
  2026-08-17).
• Usage: Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B alone lists 436 adapters, 512 finetunes, 17 merges
  and 53 quantizations in its model tree (2026-08-17); on the Hub the license
  appears as license: other with license_name: qwen-research, so it is not
  filterable by facet.
• Small metadata note while checking: qwen-2024 and tongyi-qianwen-2023
  currently list owner: HuggingFace; the licensor in both texts is Alibaba
  Cloud. Happy to open a separate issue if useful.