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by 40yearoldman 1064 days ago
Is the title an oxymoron?

Open-source commercial?
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RobotToaster 1064 days ago
If anything it's a tautology, open source by definition allows commercial use.
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satvikpendem 1064 days ago
No, you can sell open source software commercially. That being said, I'm wondering if the license will truly be open source or more like Stable Diffusion's license which is not really open source.
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schleck8 1064 days ago
Because deep learning weights aren't source code.

https://huggingface.co/blog/open_rail

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isaacremuant 1064 days ago
I think you could've googled that one and founds years of knowledge on that one.

Free as in beer Vs free as in speech and the whole thing.

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gpm 1064 days ago
Commercial presumably as opposed to non-commercial licensing (e.g. the CC BY-NC license, or the weird situation LLaMa is in).

If you listen to the definition the Open Source Initiative would have applied to the term open source had they succeeded in acquiring rights to the term, then commercial is redundant with open source, not the opposite of it.

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