Your license says it can be used commercially by anyone while Llama's license says it can only be used for research purpose. Isn't your license bound by the Llama usage license ?
Yes we have three set of models. One based on llama - which you are right, cannot be used commercial. We have two additional models based on MPT-7 base and Falcon-7B which can be used commercially with no obligations!
There is Open Llama 7B available that is Apache 2.0 licensed. Would you consider fine tuning that one as well for a commercial use of this with Llama model?
> while Llama's license says it can only be used for research purpose
Minor nitpick, but we still don't have a clear legal answer on whether this would be binding to people who didn't sign that agreement, because we still don't have a clear legal answer on whether model weights are covered by copryight.
That being said, it is good for projects to point out that there's uncertainty over whether Llama can be used commercially; so I agree with the overall point.
It’s further unclear whether a fine tuned model which has different weights counts as a copyright violation at all. Doesn’t stop a wealthy company from suing though.
AIUI it uses the Llama architecture, but not Facebook's Llama weights. It uses MPT-7B, which was trained from scratch: https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b