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The license is insane (custom taylored without a legal expert): https://huggingface.co/spaces/tiiuae/falcon-180b-license/blob/main/LICENSE.txt https://huggingfa

by krasin 3y ago

The license is insane (custom taylored without a legal expert): https://huggingface.co/spaces/tiiuae/falcon-180b-license/blob/main/LICENSE.txt https://huggingface.co/spaces/tiiuae/falcon-180b-license/blo... The gist is: > Commercial use: Falcon 180b can be commercially used but under very restrictive conditions, excluding any "hosting use". We recommend to check the license and consult your legal team if you are interested in using it for commercial purposes. This is unlike smaller Falcon models which are available under a proper Apache-2 license: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b/blob/main/README.md https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b/blob/main/README.md

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dannyw 3y ago
It’s to stop AWS from doing what they always do. I don’t consider it open source, but I don’t consider it insane either. Model training is expensive. It’s not offensive for them to maintain the sole PaaS rights.
- krasin 3y ago
  > It’s to stop AWS from doing what they always do. Business Source License is a sane way to address that ([1], [2]). 1. https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/ https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/ 2. https://fossa.com/blog/business-source-license-requirements-provisions-history/ https://fossa.com/blog/business-source-license-requirements-...
hedora 3y ago
They also reserve the right to update their Acceptable Use Policy, and then you have to modify your use of the model's output to match the new Acceptable Use Policy. So, they claim that they can retroactively claw back your license to use previously generated output. This is way beyond the level of insanity I've seen in other licenses.