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Dec 4, 2024 at 9:55pmMissinglettr-mastodon_social
Show threadrogueDec 5, 2024

@itsfoss While it's good that the article didn't mischaracterize LLaMA as open source, all of the licenses with restrictions on usage (including the "Falcon-180B TII License" and "RAIL License v1.0", and "Open RAIL-M v1") are not open source because they conflict with the Open Source Definition:

https://opensource.org/osd

Falcon 180B, Bloom, and StarCoder are not open source for the same reasons LLaMA is not open source. They are only source-available.

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