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Your license says it can be used commercially by anyone while Llama's license says it can only be used for research purpose. Isn't your license bound by the Lla

by absk82 3y ago

Your license says it can be used commercially by anyone while Llama's license says it can only be used for research purpose. Isn't your license bound by the Llama usage license ?

rahimnathwani 3y ago
AIUI it uses the Llama architecture, but not Facebook's Llama weights. It uses MPT-7B, which was trained from scratch: https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b
swyx 3y ago
the code is open source but not the weights. as far as i can tell.
- shishirpatil 3y ago
  Hi swyx, the weights are also open sourced at https://huggingface.co/gorilla-llm https://huggingface.co/gorilla-llm Let us know if you are unable to access them.
shishirpatil 3y ago
Yes we have three set of models. One based on llama - which you are right, cannot be used commercial. We have two additional models based on MPT-7 base and Falcon-7B which can be used commercially with no obligations!
- Kerbonut 3y ago
  There is Open Llama 7B available that is Apache 2.0 licensed. Would you consider fine tuning that one as well for a commercial use of this with Llama model?
  - shishirpatil 3y ago
    Yes, when we released the initial set of models Open Llama was still at 600B checkpoint and not finished training yet. It's an easy port :)
danShumway 3y ago
> while Llama's license says it can only be used for research purpose Minor nitpick, but we still don't have a clear legal answer on whether this would be binding to people who didn't sign that agreement, because we still don't have a clear legal answer on whether model weights are covered by copryight. That being said, it is good for projects to point out that there's uncertainty over whether Llama can be used commercially; so I agree with the overall point.
- az226 3y ago
  It’s further unclear whether a fine tuned model which has different weights counts as a copyright violation at all. Doesn’t stop a wealthy company from suing though.

by absk82 3y ago

Your license says it can be used commercially by anyone while Llama's license says it can only be used for research purpose. Isn't your license bound by the Llama usage license ?

rahimnathwani 3y ago

AIUI it uses the Llama architecture, but not Facebook's Llama weights. It uses MPT-7B, which was trained from scratch: https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b

swyx 3y ago

the code is open source but not the weights. as far as i can tell.

shishirpatil 3y ago
Hi swyx, the weights are also open sourced at https://huggingface.co/gorilla-llm https://huggingface.co/gorilla-llm Let us know if you are unable to access them.

shishirpatil 3y ago

Yes we have three set of models. One based on llama - which you are right, cannot be used commercial. We have two additional models based on MPT-7 base and Falcon-7B which can be used commercially with no obligations!

Kerbonut 3y ago
There is Open Llama 7B available that is Apache 2.0 licensed. Would you consider fine tuning that one as well for a commercial use of this with Llama model?
- shishirpatil 3y ago
  Yes, when we released the initial set of models Open Llama was still at 600B checkpoint and not finished training yet. It's an easy port :)

danShumway 3y ago

> while Llama's license says it can only be used for research purpose Minor nitpick, but we still don't have a clear legal answer on whether this would be binding to people who didn't sign that agreement, because we still don't have a clear legal answer on whether model weights are covered by copryight. That being said, it is good for projects to point out that there's uncertainty over whether Llama can be used commercially; so I agree with the overall point.

az226 3y ago
It’s further unclear whether a fine tuned model which has different weights counts as a copyright violation at all. Doesn’t stop a wealthy company from suing though.