Google's Gemma 4 Is Apache 2.0, but the Community Is Still Asking the Old Questions

Google's decision to ship Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 resolves the legal ambiguity that defined the previous two years of Gemma adoption. The prior custom license included prohibited-use terms that Google could update unilaterally — an arrangement that made enterprise compliance teams hesitant regardless of the model's technical quality. Apache 2.0 removes that contingency. The terms are stable, the commercial path is clear, and the legal teams that had been holding back deployment have the instrument they were waiting for.