GermaNet data have been licensed by the following industrial partners:
- DFKI Saarbrücken: Using GermaNet synsets for sense tagging of syntactically annotated corpora
- GMD Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH, Darmstadt: Content Engineering: Optimizing Information Retrieval Mechanisms
- ENEA (Ente per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e l'ambiente), Rome, Italy: Emploiment of GermaNet concepts for information extraction techniques
- Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Sankt Augustin: Deriving lexical-semantic hierarchical relations from classical dictionaries
- Novomind AG, Hamburg: Using GermaNet with regard to constructing knowledge bases for virtual internet agents (chatterbots)
- Arexera GmbH, Martinsried: Creation of terminologies on the basis of GermaNet data and relations
- Duden Brockhaus neue Medien GmbH, Mannheim: Evaluation of GermaNet for building synonymic lexicons
- Agentscape Berlin: Evaluation within the area of intelligent agent systems
- Evosoft Tele Care GmbH, Nürnberg: Evaluation of using GermaNet with regard to semantic classification for developing speech therapy software for aphasic patients