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On Meta’s Q2 earning call Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg called Llama 2, the company’s latest generative AI model, an “open source project.”
Except it’s not actually open source, since its license has usage restrictions. Here’s Stefano Maffulli, the executive director for the Open Source Initiative:
‘Open Source’ means software under a license with specific characteristics, defined by the Open Source Definition (OSD). Among other requirements, for a license to be Open Source, it may not discriminate against persons or groups or fields of endeavor (OSD points 5 and 6). Meta’s license for the LLaMa models and code does not meet this standard; specifically, it puts restrictions on commercial use for some users (paragraph 2) and also restricts the use of the model and software for certain purposes (the Acceptable Use Policy).
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