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Keep fighting the good fight. Saying Llama is open source is straight up lying. It's open weights.


Thank you, sometimes it feels weird to argue against people who are generally pro-FOSS but somehow for LLMs are fine with misleading statements. I'm glad at least one other person can see through it, encouraging I'm on the right track :)

I'm not sure I'd even call Llama "open weights". For me that would mean I can download the weights freely (you cannot download Llama weights without signing a license agreement) and use them freely, you cannot use them freely + you need to add a notice from Meta/Llama on everything that uses Llama saying:

> prominently display “Built with Llama” on a related website, user interface, blogpost, about page, or product documentation.

https://www.llama.com/llama3_2/license/

Not sure what the correct label is, but it's not open source nor open weights, as far as I can tell.




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