How major open-source projects are funded
34 projects. Full analysis: Project funding.
| Project | Origin | Host | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenHarmony | CN | OpenAtom Foundation (MIIT-supervised); code donated by Huawei | Apache-2.0 (most), GPL-2.0 kernel |
| openEuler | CN | OpenAtom Foundation (since 2021); originated at Huawei (EulerOS) | MulanPSL-2.0 (+upstream licences) |
| OpenAnolis / Anolis OS | CN | OpenAnolis community led by Alibaba Cloud (OpenAtom-listed) | MulanPSL-2.0 / GPL |
| OpenCloudOS | CN | OpenCloudOS community led by Tencent | GPL / MulanPSL-2.0 |
| PaddlePaddle | CN | Baidu (company project) | Apache-2.0 |
| MindSpore | CN | Huawei (company project) | Apache-2.0 |
| Qwen (open-weight LLMs) | CN | Alibaba Cloud (Tongyi Lab) | Apache-2.0 (most sizes); Qwen licence for some |
| DeepSeek (open-weight LLMs) | CN | DeepSeek (Hangzhou), owned by High-Flyer quant fund | MIT (code and V3/R1 weights) |
| Apache Doris | CN-origin | Apache Software Foundation (donated by Baidu) | Apache-2.0 |
| Apache ECharts | CN-origin | ASF (donated by Baidu) | Apache-2.0 |
| Apache Dubbo | CN-origin | ASF (donated by Alibaba) | Apache-2.0 |
| Apache RocketMQ | CN-origin | ASF (donated by Alibaba) | Apache-2.0 |
| Apache APISIX | CN-origin | ASF (donated by API7.ai, Shenzhen) | Apache-2.0 |
| TiDB | CN | PingCAP (company); TiKV donated to CNCF | Apache-2.0 |
| Dify | CN-origin | LangGenius Inc. (company) | Dify Open Source License (Apache-2.0 + extra conditions; not OSI) |
| XiangShan (RISC-V CPU) | CN | Institute of Computing Technology, CAS + Beijing Institute of Open Source Chip (BOSC) | MulanPSL-2.0 |
| Ant Design | CN | Ant Group (company) | MIT |
| KubeSphere | CN | QingCloud (company) | Apache-2.0 (community edition terms changed 2025) |
| Eclipse SDV / Tractus-X (Catena-X) | EU | Eclipse Foundation AISBL (Brussels) | Apache-2.0 / EPL-2.0 |
| Sovereign Cloud Stack | EU | OSBA (Open Source Business Alliance, DE); now Forum SCS | Apache-2.0 |
| Nextcloud | EU | Nextcloud GmbH (Stuttgart) | AGPL-3.0 |
| LibreOffice / The Document Foundation (+ Collabora Online) | EU | The Document Foundation (Stiftung, Berlin); Collabora Productivity (UK) | MPL-2.0 |
| Open-Xchange (OX App Suite, Dovecot, PowerDNS) | EU | Open-Xchange AG (DE), private-equity owned | GPL / AGPL / MPL |
| OpenEuroLLM / EuroLLM | EU | Consortium of 20+ EU organisations; EuroLLM: Unbabel, IST Lisbon, Edinburgh and others | open models (Apache-2.0) |
| Mistral open-weight models | EU | Mistral AI SAS (Paris) | Apache-2.0 (some models); Mistral Research Licence for others |
| VLC / VideoLAN | EU | VideoLAN (French non-profit association); VideoLabs SAS | GPL-2.0 / LGPL-2.1 |
| Matrix / Element | EU | Matrix.org Foundation (UK CIC) + Element (New Vector Ltd, UK) | Apache-2.0 spec; Synapse AGPL-3.0 |
| KDE | EU | KDE e.V. (Berlin) | GPL / LGPL |
| Qt | EU | The Qt Company (Helsinki, listed) | LGPL-3.0 / GPL + commercial (dual) |
| SUSE / openSUSE | EU | SUSE S.A. (Luxembourg; EQT-owned); openSUSE Project | GPL and others |
| curl | EU | Daniel Stenberg (SE), employed by wolfSSL | curl licence (MIT-style) |
| GnuPG | EU | g10 Code GmbH (Düsseldorf) | GPL-3.0 / LGPL |
| OpenSSL | EU | OpenSSL Foundation (US) + OpenSSL Corporation (CH) | Apache-2.0 |
| RISC-V: DARE / OpenHW (CORE-V) | EU | DARE: EuroHPC JU consortium (coord. BSC); OpenHW Foundation under Eclipse Foundation | Solderpad-2.0 (hardware) |