# Fork Modal Pipe & Modal Json

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/1484/fork-modal-pipe-modal-json
Category: FAQs (https://forum.modalai.com/category/4/faqs)
Posted: 2022-10-26 15:41:06 UTC by Philemon Benner
Replies: 1 · Views: 810

## Philemon Benner · 2022-10-26 15:41:06 UTC

Hey,
i am using modal pipe and modal json in my project as external project , but sadly the cmake install path is always /usr/lib64, so i wanted to ask if i am allowed to fork modal pipe and modal json and create a public gitlab project including these, where i only change the cmake files ?

## Reply by Chad Sweet (ModalAI staff) · 2022-10-26 17:12:06 UTC

For any of our projects, there should be a LICENSE file in the root directory that dictates the terms of use.

Most of our software has a license that limits to use with ModalAI hardware. There are a few exceptions, like libmodal_pipe, which have different licenses for compatibility purposes. 

You can see the license for libmodal_pipe here: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-sdk/core-libs/libmodal-pipe/-/blob/master/LICENSE