Meili SAS

license

MIT(core)

enterprise-dir

BUSL-1.1

source

public

core-gated

gated(advanced features including sharding and S3-streaming snapshots ship in the same repository under the Business Source License 1.1 or a commercial license, and BUSL permits non-production use only without an agreement)

MIT license body confirmed. The LICENSE body reads `SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT AND BUSL-1.1` and splits the work in two: the core search engine is MIT and free for commercial use, while an Enterprise Edition portion is governed by LICENSE-EE or BUSL-1.1. That is functionality withheld from the open terms inside the published tree, so the core is gated - the litellm shape, not the langchain one.

• https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-18

  LICENSE body reads 'SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT AND BUSL-1.1' and states that part of the work falls under the Meilisearch Enterprise Edition, licensed under the Business Source License 1.1 per LICENSE-EE, with the other parts under the MIT license.

• https://api.github.com/repos/meilisearch/meilisearch recorded 2026-08-18

  Repo metadata - license spdx_id NOASSERTION, private false, archived false, default branch main - for meilisearch/meilisearch.

• https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18

  README describes a search engine API with out-of-the-box full-text, semantic and hybrid search, and a license section separating the MIT core, free for commercial use, from an Enterprise Edition carrying sharding and S3-streaming snapshots, and names the separately licensed portion of the same repository rather than presenting the tree as uniformly open.