Change model license to Apache License, Version 2.0

[andreaskoepf]

From an economical and ecological perspective the current "Non-commercial bespoke" model license is sub-optimal and should be changed to a truly liberal open-source license like for example Apache 2.0.

In the current state Meta published the whole replication recipe open-source (GPL v3) but asks other entities to spend a lot of energy (potentially releasing massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere) to replicate and release a truly open-source version of LLaMA. Given the fact that LLaMA model weights are currently already available for download at many different places this is from an ecological perspective a preposterous management decision and in my personal opinion not well aligned with the overall ecological ambitions of Meta.

If you say "open" (as in the LLaMA paper) and you want to get the bonus credibility that comes with it .. please do it fully and not half-hearted as done currently.

[CactiStaccingCrane]

LGTM

[hzj5790]

LGTM as well.

[MarkSchmidty]

Unironically LGTM.

People are already doing the training. It's just a waste of energy which could be instantly spared by simply accepting this PR.

Do the right thing.

[nez]

LGTM

[Aspie96]

Unless the one downvote is from Sheldon Cooper the voice of us the mob is clear.

Let this waste of coal (for something which may or may not even be copyrightable) stop.

[Semisol]

lgtm

[achaiah]

From section 6. of your own paper on LLaMA: “The training of our models have consumed a massive quantity of energy, responsible for the emission of carbon dioxide. […] This means that developing these models would have cost around 2,638 MWh under our assumptions, and a total emission of 1,015 tCO2eq. We hope that releasing these models will help to reduce future carbon emission since the training is already done, and some of the models are relatively small and can be run on a single GPU.” Did you read your own paper?

[gururise]

Approve change of license to Apache 2.0.

[youtube-jocoding]

LGTM

[Mikeriess]

LGTM

[kyb3r]

Looks good to me

[nikokaoja]

LGTM

[kykim79]

LGTM

[woogi-kang]

LGTM

[KimChangKyun]

LGTM

[Hosung-Ahn]

LGTM👍

[bosung90]

LGTM

[jingal]

LGTM

[mkm101]

LGTO

[GEUNHOKIM]

LGTM

[tooget]

LGTM

[akumaburn]

Approve change of license to Apache 2.0.

[hana825]

LGTM

[koosoli]

LGTM

[knaik]

LGTM

[Mark-Kim]

LGTM

[dankolesnikov]

LGTM

[jinnin0105]

LGTM 👍👍

[lrs1353281004]

LGTM

[JhoLee]

LGTM

[sixeightw0lf]

LGTM, change the licence or get DMCA'd Meta... Shadow is watching.

[Zerbaib]

nice

[alpayariyak]

It's not too late Meta ❤️

[edgardz]

LGTM

[livelikeabel]

LGTM 👍🏽

[runzhi214]

LGTM

[katmai]

From an economical and ecological perspective the current "Non-commercial bespoke" model license is sub-optimal and should be changed to a truly liberal open-source license like for example Apache 2.0.

In the current state Meta published the whole replication recipe open-source (GPL v3) but asks other entities to spend a lot of energy (potentially releasing massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere) to replicate and release a truly open-source version of LLaMA. Given the fact that LLaMA model weights are currently already available for download at many different places this is from an ecological perspective a preposterous management decision and in my personal opinion not well aligned with the overall ecological ambitions of Meta.

If you say "open" (as in the LLaMA paper) and you want to get the bonus credibility that comes with it .. please do it fully and not half-hearted as done currently.

not sure what i was smoking when i thought this was a good idea and supported it.

After revisiting and re-reading this, i realized that this is incredibly sleazy formulated. oh the ecological impact that Meta has, the horror. Crazy irresponsible management not aligning with saving the planet. The CO2 release! Nice thread trying to use "saving the planet" and "ecology" as a way to get something from someone and attempt at guilt-tripping them into doing something. Decent manipulation lol.

Not saying this might not be a good idea, but just because this couldn't be formulated in an honest way, without trying to hijack other trends to try to lend more credibility to this, and not being stand-up and straight to the point, i can't possibly support this. It's just a shady way of doing things. Maybe next time.

[JayLiangs]

nice initiative.

[meowpunch]

LGTM 🌏🌱

[FrancescoSaverioZuppichini]

From an economical and ecological perspective the current "Non-commercial bespoke" model license is sub-optimal and should be changed to a truly liberal open-source license like for example Apache 2.0.
In the current state Meta published the whole replication recipe open-source (GPL v3) but asks other entities to spend a lot of energy (potentially releasing massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere) to replicate and release a truly open-source version of LLaMA. Given the fact that LLaMA model weights are currently already available for download at many different places this is from an ecological perspective a preposterous management decision and in my personal opinion not well aligned with the overall ecological ambitions of Meta.
If you say "open" (as in the LLaMA paper) and you want to get the bonus credibility that comes with it .. please do it fully and not half-hearted as done currently.

not sure what i was smoking when i thought this was a good idea and supported it.

After revisiting and re-reading this, i realized that this is incredibly sleazy formulated. oh the ecological impact that Meta has, the horror. Crazy irresponsible management not aligning with saving the planet. The CO2 release! Nice thread trying to use "saving the planet" and "ecology" as a way to get something from someone and attempt at guilt-tripping them into doing something. Decent manipulation lol.

Not saying this might not be a good idea, but just because this couldn't be formulated in an honest way, without trying to hijack other trends to try to lend more credibility to this, and not being stand-up and straight to the point, i can't possibly support this. It's just a shady way of doing things. Maybe next time.

basically what every corporation is doing when they claim to do something for saving c02

[andreaskoepf]

Today Meta released llama2 under a permissive license. This means: It's time to close this PR. :-)

Of course I am a bit disappointed that the Open-Assistant OASST1 dataset was not included in the open-source seed data in the RLHF process for llama2-chat... I hope it was not for "political reasons" due to this friendly PR... after all my hope is that the majority of contributors in the open-source field collaborate and join forces to push the SotA forward.

llama2 is obviously a huge step forward - an important and absolutely fantastic contribution by MetaAI. Thanks everyone involved @ Meta .. awesome work! ❤️

[wookingwoo]

LGTM
Nice Meta!
It will be a great help to the development of AI and the protection of the global environment.

[ghost]

LGTM

[happy-spark]

LGTM 👍