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How does Ollama distribute these models? The downloads page on the Llama website, https://llama.meta.com/llama-downloads/, has a heading that reads:

> Request access to Llama

Which to me gives the impression that access is gated and by application only. But Ollama downloaded it without so much as a "y".

Is that just Meta's website UI? Registration isn't actually required?

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It doesn't distribute. The app pulls from hugging face.

Hugging Face's Llama 2 page says, "You need to share contact information with Meta to access this model":

https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-2-7b

Ollama's installer didn't ask me for any contact info.

Huggingface has many, many fine tunes of Llama from different people, which don't ask that.

The requirement has always been more of a fig leaf than anything else. It allows Facebook to say everyone who downloaded from them agreed to some legal/ethics nonsense. Like all click-through license agreements nobody reads it; it's there so Facebook can pretend to be shocked when misuse of the model comes to light.

I mean Llama itself, not a fine tune. Ollama seemed to download and run Llama 2 with no agreement.

because this field is a baby, noncompliance is rampant

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