| > First of all, they are not violating any license or terms in any form. IANAL but from what I understand likely debatable at least. You'll notice I said "sleazy" and didn't touch on license, potential legal issues, etc. I'm pointing out that other projects that are substantially based/dependent on other pieces of software to do the "heavy lifting" nearly always acknowledge it. An example being faster-whisper which is a good corollary and actually has "with CTranslate2" right in the heading[0] with direct links to whisper.cpp and CTranslate2 immediately following. Ollama is the diametric opposite of this - unless you go spelunking through commits, etc you'd have no idea that Ollama doesn't do much in terms of the underlying LLM. Take a look at llama.cpp to see just how much "Ollama functionality" it provides. Then look at /r/LocalLLaMA, HN, etc to see just how many Ollama users (most) have no idea that llama.cpp even exists. I don't know how this could be anything other than an attempt to mislead people into thinking Ollama is uniquely and directly implementing all of the magic. It's pretty glaring and has been pointed out repeatedly. It's not some casual oversight. > They add value and enable thousands of people to use local LLMs, that would not be able to do that so easy otherwise. The very first thing I said going so far as to mention commits, model zoo, etc while specifically acknowledging the level of effort and added value. > Maybe llama.cpp should mention that Ollama takes care of easy workable access to their functionality… Are you actually suggesting that enabling software should mention, track, or even be aware of the likely countless projects that are built on it? [0] - https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper |