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by startupsfail 484 days ago
Yes, releasing training source code code is like releasing the source code of a compiler used to compile and link the binary.

Lets say you took GCC, modified its sources, compiled your code with it and released your binaries along with modified GCC source code. And you are claiming that your software is open source. Well, it wouldn’t be.

Releasing training data is extremely hard, as licensing and redistribution rights for that data are difficult to tackle. And it is not clear, what exactly are the benefits in releasing it.