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Comment by bob1029 | Hacker News Reader

> The model has an EULA, you need to apply for downloading it

I am confused - I grabbed Ollama and pulled down some of these models. I don't recall having to go through any legal agreements. I just type:

  ollama pull llama3.1

Maybe I missed something and am actually 10 steps behind. Who knows anymore. This whole space is totally insane to me.

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https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3

"To download the model weights and tokenizer, please visit the Meta Llama website and accept our License.

Once your request is approved, you will receive a signed URL over email. Then, run the download.sh script, passing the URL provided when prompted to start the download.

Pre-requisites: Ensure you have wget and md5sum installed. Then run the script: ./download.sh.

Remember that the links expire after 24 hours and a certain amount of downloads. You can always re-request a link if you start seeing errors such as 403: Forbidden."

Go try it.

https://ollama.com

You may come away surprised.

You still agree to this EULA by using it:

https://ollama.com/library/llama3.1/blobs/0ba8f0e314b4

> By clicking “I Accept” below or by using or distributing any portion or element of the Llama Materials, you agree to be bound by this Agreement.

> You still agree to this EULA by using it

I think my lawyer would have a few things to say about automatic legal agreements hidden somewhere in source control.

Is the ollama project part of Meta? Is that what's going on here?

You never see that agreement with `ollama run`. It's not even a shrink-wrap licence - there's no indication there's a restriction at all between requesting the model and the API receiving requests for it. This situation is probably going to end up with the ollama folks getting a slap on the wrist and told to implement some shrink-wrap wording but until then, nobody can be bound by that licence because Meta can't demonstrate that anyone has seen the offer.

I think this is just the ollama site rehosting in violation of the license (unless there is some fine print I am missing). Huggingface makes you login and accept the agreement.

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