HuggingFace Text Generation Library License Changed from Apache 2 to Hfoil

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Here someone from the team explain the change: https://twitter.com/jeffboudier/status/1684988169669005312

"HFOIL is not a true open source license: to sell a hosted or managed service built with TGI, we require a separate agreement."

I added support for TGI endpoints in Discourse yesterday. That stings.

I wonder if the license is aimed to block companies from building TGI-as-a-service only, or also applies for companies who use TGI internally for LLM inference that power some AI feature in a complete product too.

It would make all sense to fork and maintain the version before the license change, if it has all the key features you (and others) need.

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