LanguageTool is published under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
For more detailed license information, see COPYING.txt and README.md.

This is the list of libraries used by LanguageTool and their licenses:

annotations.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|com.intellij.annotations
berkeleylm.jar: Apache License 2.0, https://code.google.com/p/berkeleylm/
cjftransform.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://code.google.com/p/cjftransform/
commons-*: Apache License 2.0, http://commons.apache.org/lang/
guava.jar: Apache License 2.0, https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/
hamcrest-core.jar: BSD License, https://github.com/hamcrest
hunspell-native-libs.jar: GPL/LGPL/MPL triple license, http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
hppc.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://labs.carrotsearch.com/hppc.html
ictclas4j: Apache License 2.0, http://code.google.com/p/ictclas4j/
jakarta-regexp.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/
jna.jar: LGPL version 2.1 or later, or Apache License 2.0, https://github.com/twall/jna
jopt-simple.jar: MIT License, http://pholser.github.io/jopt-simple/
jsonic.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://jsonic.sourceforge.jp/
junit.jar: Common Public License v 1.0, CPL.txt, http://www.junit.org
jwordsplitter.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://www.danielnaber.de/jwordsplitter/
language-detector.jar: Apache License 2.0, https://github.com/optimaize/language-detector
log4j.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/
lucene-analyzers-common|core|queries|sandbox|test-framework.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://lucene.apache.org
lucene-gosen-ipadic.jar: LGPL v2.1, http://code.google.com/p/lucene-gosen/
morfologik-*.jar: Morfologik-license.txt, http://morfologik.blogspot.com, http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/dweiss
opennlp-*: Apache License 2.0, http://opennlp.apache.org, http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/models-1.5
ptk-common.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://sweble.org
rats-runtime.jar: LGPL version 2.1, http://cs.nyu.edu/rgrimm/xtc/
segment.jar: segment-license.txt, http://sourceforge.net/projects/segment/
slf4j-api.jar: MIT License, http://www.slf4j.org
slf4j-nop.jar: MIT License, http://www.slf4j.org
swc-engine.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://sweble.org
swc-parser-lazy.jar: Apache License 2.0, http://sweble.org
utils.jar: part of Sweble, Apache License 2.0, http://sweble.org

Other resources like dictionaries are not technically libraries, they may have 
different licenses (including GPL) without affecting LanguageTool's licensing. 
For the dictionaries that are used for spell checking, see
./org/languagetool/resource/<xx>/hunspell/README*
and
./org/languagetool/resource/<xx>/spelling/README* (<xx> = language code).
