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Lens license history

Developer Tools·Last verified 2026-11-04·Confidence: High

Changed from MIT to Lens-Terms-of-Service starting with 6.0.0 on 2022-07-28.

Versions before 6.0.0 remain under MIT.

Self-hosting
Allowed
Offering as a managed service (SaaS)
Restricted
Commercial impact: Restricted

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License timeline

2022-07-28

From 6.0.0

MITPermissive→Lens-Terms-of-ServiceProprietary
Restricted
Self-hosting: Allowed
Offering as a managed service (SaaS): Restricted

Lens relicensed to LicenseRef-Lens-Terms-of-Service.

Sources

Verified 2026-11-04·Confidence: High

Originally released under MIT

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