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by richardw 973 days ago
So if someone includes images in their project they need to tell you every brush stroke that led to the final image?

All sorts of intangibles end up in open source projects. This isn’t a science experiment that needs replication. They’re not trying to prove how they came up with the image/code/model.
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xnorswap 973 days ago
Those "Brush Strokes" are effectively the source code. To be considered open source, yes source code needs to be provided along side the binaries (the "image").
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EGreg 973 days ago
It’s more like someone giving you an open source front end client, but not giving you a way to host your own backend.

Look into Affero GPL. Images are inert static assets. Here we are talking about the back end engine. The fact that neural networks and model weights are non-von-neumann architecture doesn’t negate the fact that they are executable code and not just static assets!

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