If we can't build the weights, then we don't have the source. I'm not entirely sure what an open-source model would even look like, but I am confident that these binary blobs that we are loading into llama.cpp and vllm aren't the equivalent of source code. We have absolutely no idea what sort of data went into them.

This is fine. It isn't slanderous. It is what we have, and it is awesome. Just because it is awesome doesn't make it open source.