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Podman

Podman is an open source container engine for managing containers, pods and images, with Podman Desktop as its graphical application for Windows, macOS and Linux. Both are free to use and released under the Apache License 2.0.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source
  • Freeware

  1. The Podman project describes itself as free and open source container tools and lists its licence as Apache License 2.0.[1]

  2. The Podman source repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.[2]

  3. Podman Desktop is Podman's graphical application for installing and working with Podman and other container engines on Windows, macOS and Linux.[3]

  4. Podman Desktop is presented as a free, open source, community-driven and vendor-neutral tool that is part of the CNCF.[4]

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References

  1. Podman · podman.io · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. LICENSE - containers/podman · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. Podman · podman.io · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. Podman Desktop - Containers and Kubernetes | Podman Desktop · podman-desktop.io · retrieved 2026-09-27
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