However, it transpires Falcon 180B uses a proprietary license “based upon” the Apache license. Despite Falcon's claims to the contrary, it is not open source.
And that's disappointing because Falcon 40B is actually open source (and Apache licensed).
Edit: plus, the industry acts like models aren't derivative works of the training data. If true the source license is less important than the model!
The Falcon 180B license is special, even in the context of "open" LLM models:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/tiiuae/falcon-180b-license/blo...
> 5.3. The Acceptable Use Policy may be updated from time to time. You should monitor the web address at which the Acceptable Use Policy is hosted to ensure that your use of the Work or any Derivative Work complies with the updated Acceptable Use Policy.
This is basically "don't use it" for any business that retains a lawyer.
Feels very EEE to me.
This isn't as big of a deal as people try to claim it is.
LLama 2 can be used for almost anything unless you are like Google or Apple.
But if you don't work there, then you are basically safe to do almost anything with it.