On Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:32:36 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Recently Meta (Facebook) released Llama 2, a powerful large language model (LLM) with more than 70 billion parameters. In the past, Meta had restricted use of its LLMs to research purposes, but with Llama 2, Meta opened it up; the only restriction is that it can't be used for commercial purposes.'
Fun fact: copyright law still exists. And big companies, in particular, still have armies of lawyers to see to it that, in any legal stoush, their employers come out on top. Further fun fact: a lot of Free software is still being created by small outfits and just private individuals working on their own or together. In other words, groups that cannot afford such high-calibre legal firepower, and would have little or no defence if any of it was turned on them. “For non-commercial purposes” is such a badly-defined licensing restriction, that’s why it is not considered an acceptable part of any Free licence. I see material posted on commercial services with restrictions like this all the time. Say you post your video on YouTube, saying that others can copy and reuse it, but only “for non-commercial purposes”. Does that restriction apply to YouTube itself? It shows an ad next to your video, and so gets some money from people seeing it. Are you giving it a special exemption from your licence? Or are others allowed to reuse your material the same way YouTube is doing?