Can you clarify what you mean?

If you check HF you will see its Apache2 and the datasets were also permissive.

It's one of the few models on the market where the creator indemnifies it against copyright claims.

https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-ethical-ai

Open source for ML is more like Allen Institute's Olmo models.

https://allenai.org/olmo

I'm just giving it as an example. I haven't looked at Granite's repos.