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> I'll be able to use the output of the model (that can't be prohibited)

If the model is copyrightable, they can prohibit you from running the model for a commercial purpose, even if they don't have copyright on the output.

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Not sure why you are downvoted, this is exactly my concerns with llama. You can’t run llama with the intent of distilling your own commercial model.

(Maybe it's wishful thinking. But, precisely. My analogy would be: you can't run Visual C++ for commercial purposes without a valid licence, even though (ignoring linking against the runtime), the license of a compiler doesn't affect the licence of the output.

If weights are copyrightable, then you need permission to copy them into computer memory/run them, just like any application.

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