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<h1>Licenses and Dependencies</h1>
<p>Stan and its dependent libraries, are distributed under generous, freedom-respecting licenses approved by the <a href="http://opensource.org">Open Source Initiative</a>.</p>
<p>In particular, the licenses for Stan and its dependent libraries have no “copyleft” provisions requiring applications of Stan to be open source if they are redistributed.</p>
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