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FSF: Meta's License for Its Llama 3.1 AI Model 'is Not a Free Software License'
July saw the news that Meta had launched a powerful open-source AI model, Llama 3.1. But the Free Software Foundation evaluated Llama 3.1's license agreement, and announced this week that "this is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software released under it." Not onl...
July saw the news that Meta had launched a powerful open-source AI model, Llama 3.1.But the Free Software Foundation evaluated Llama 3.1's license agreement, and announced this week that "this is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software released under it." Not only does it deny users their freedom, but it also purports to hand over powers to the licensors that should only be exercised through lawmaking by democratically-elected governments. Moreover, it has been applied by Meta to a machine-learning (ML) application, even though the license completely fails to address software freedom challenges inherent in such applications....
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