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All of the llama derivatives are tainted by Meta's license, which makes commercial use illegal and even personal use dubious.

Is all the training material used for Llama available as open source? Maybe lots of folks can pool their resources and create fully open clean models / weights instead.

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> All of the llama derivatives are tainted by Meta's license, which makes commercial use illegal and even personal use dubious.

This is not true if you never agreed to Meta's license. If you haven't, you either can't redistribute the weights or you're completely free to use them as you see fit depending on whether weights are copyrightable (very likely) or not. We'll have to wait for the llama-dl lawsuit to find out for sure.

For personal use, who cares? Really.. How would they even know I'm using it?

That is, unless you can "clean room" an alternative while experimenting in secret with a Llama derivative.

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