Author of the post here. Just reading the comments so apologies for getting some of the terminology wrong. The intention was never to mislead folk , just wanted to share my enthusiasm for emulation and the fact that you could get working code.
It seems hopelessly confused, because there are no open source models, only some that allow free redistribution of the model weights. Perhaps they should be called "open" and the word "source" should be dropped.
This is debated until the end of time. Open weights, whatever you want to call it. Essentially people and companies can use LLama 2 commercially as long as you have less than 700m MAUs if I recall correctly.
It's been a looooong time since I mostly did web dev, but if anything got me back in the game, this is it. I'm sad to see Twitter implode, but this unnatural disaster is a window of opportunity that feels like the mid-2000s social media Cambrian explosion all over again.
Of course I've heard of the OSI. I don't understand why I'm particularly bound to their definition of open source, given that both the phrase and the concept predate the OSI, likely by decades.
Why do you care? You have a particular vision of how your software should be able to be used. Why do you care if it's "open source" or not? At least with companies, I understand the reason for marketing purposes to be perceived as open source. I'm not sure I understand why an individual maintainer of a project is so desperate to be seen as being open source if it doesn't conform to their vision.
Why does anybody care about anything? It’s certainly not life or death for me; I guess I feel like it’s an unnecessary restriction of what “open source” could (and maybe even ought to) mean.
I’m not desperate to be perceived any way in the OSS community; I do plenty of work on projects that satisfy the OSI’s definition, and that will never change. But I also don’t see why the work I do, which I do for the public and not for corporations, which is open in the most literal sense of the word, can’t be rightfully called open source.
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