Radiance Field License Comparison

Compare licensing terms and commercial-use permissions for the core NeRF and Gaussian Splatting libraries, then browse the platform directory by licence family below to see which products build on each.

Licence families at a glance

What each family lets you do. Click a family to see the platforms in the directory that ship under it.

Family	Commercial use	Modify & redistribute	Must share source	Patent grant	Attribution
MIT	Yes	Yes, including closed source	No	No	Keep the notice
Apache 2.0	Yes	Yes, including closed source	No	Yes	Keep notices, state changes
BSD	Yes	Yes, including closed source	No	No	Keep the notice
GPL	Yes	Yes, but derivatives stay GPL	Yes, when distributed	Implied (v3)	Keep notices
AGPL	Yes	Yes, but derivatives stay AGPL	Yes, also for network use	Implied	Keep notices
Proprietary	Per vendor terms	No	No	No	Per vendor terms
Mixed	Per component	Per component	Per component	Per component	Per component
Other	Read the licence	Read the licence	Read the licence	Read the licence	Read the licence

Core libraries

Project	License	Commercial Use
Instant-NGP	NVIDIA Source Code License	Needs to be Licensed
Nerfacto	Apache 2.0	Free to use
Zip-NeRF	Apache 2.0	Free to use

Platforms by licence family

Which platforms ship under which licence

Every entry in the platform directory carries a licence family. The table above summarises what each family allows; the index below updates itself as platforms are added or relicensed, and each platform page shows the exact terms.