Google Gemma 4’s Apache 2.0 License Removes a Key Enterprise Deployment Blocker for Self-Hosting
3 min readGoogle DeepMind released Google Gemma 4 on 2 April 2026 under a fully permissive Apache 2.0 license — a policy change that matters more than any benchmark number in the announcement. For enterprise teams that evaluated earlier Gemma versions and cleared the technical bar only to fail legal review, the license shift is the story. …