[yencabulator]

> Think about it this way: just because someone wrote hello world in c and then a compiler translated that into assembly, doesn't invalidate the quality of that assembly code being open source!

Meanwhile:

> The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program.

https://opensource.org/osd

[NitpickLawyer]

Then, given the fact that both you and Mistral LLC modify the program in the exact same way, that portion still holds.

People view weights as an intended obfuscation by the party releasing it. It is not! In fact, it is equally as hard for them to "understand" why a certain value at a certain index is what it is, as it is for you! Just ask Anthropic. They are also doing poke this weight, see what pops with their own models.

Again, that is why I used the analogy above. You are arguing that if someone uses a hardcoded value in their code, and won't share how they derived that value, it somehow isn't open source. That, IMO, is wrong.

[diggan]

> Again, that is why I used the analogy above. You are arguing that if someone uses a hardcoded value in their code, and won't share how they derived that value, it somehow isn't open source. That, IMO, is wrong.

It feels like you deliberately ignore the source part of "open source". If you have X that produces Y, then X is the source, Y is the output. You cannot "open source" Y as Y isn't a source to anything, it's the output from the source. The only part you can "open source" is the source part, which is X in this case.