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No, definitely not! Open source is a binary attribute. If your product is partially open source, it's not open source, only the parts you open sourced.
So Llama is not open source, even if some parts are.
I agree with you. What I'm saying is that perhaps the law can differentiate between "not open source" "partially open source" and "fully open source"
right now it's just the binary yes/no. which again determines whether or not millions of people would have access to something that could be useful to them
i'm not saying change the definition of open source. i'm saying for legal purposes, in the EU, there should be some clarification in the law. if there is a financial benefit to having an open source product available then there should be something for having a partially open source product available
especially a product that is as open source as it could possible legally be without violating copyright
Open source isn't defined legally, only through the OSI. The benefit is only from a marketing perspective as far as I'm aware.
Which is also why it's important that "open source" doesn't get mixed up with "partially open source", otherwise companies will get the benefits of "open source" without doing the actual work.
It is defined legally in the EU
https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/
https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/high-level-summary/
There are different requirements if the provider falls under "Free and open licence GPAI model providers"
Which is legally defined in that piece of legislation
Meta has done a lot for Open source, to their credit. React Native is my preferred framework for mobile development, for example.
Again- I fully acknowledge they are a large evil megacorp but without evil large megacorps we would not have Open Source as we know it today. There are certain realities we need to accept based on the system we live in. Open Source only exists because corporations benefit off of this shared infrastructure.
Our laws should encourage this type of behavior and not restrict it. By limiting the scope, it gives Meta less incentive to open source the code behind their AI models. We want the opposite. We want to incentivize