Is Open Source Free or Can You License What It Creates?
Added 2025-02-05 18:02:29 +0000 UTC" Emily Omier, a well-regarded open-source start-up consultant, emphasized that open source is a binary standard set by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), not a spectrum. "Either you're open source, or you are not. If you have the OSI-approved license, you are open source. If you don't, then you have some other kind of license."
Meta's Llama fails this standard by withholding critical components like training data and methodology, and by limiting transparency and community modification.
Meta's Llama models also impose licensing restrictions on its users. For example, if you have an extremely successful AI program that uses Llama code, you'll have to pay Meta to use it. That's not open source. Period. "
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