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Is "Doom" open source? The source code to the engine is available and open, but if you want to do anything useful or recreate the original game, you have to pr

Is "Doom" open source? The source code to the engine is available and open, but if you want to do anything useful or recreate the original game, you have to provide your own data. This model is open source, much in a similar way that the Doom engine is open source.

monocasa 3y ago
> Is "Doom" open source? > The source code to the engine is available and open, but if you want to do anything useful or recreate the original game, you have to provide your own data. The Doom executable is open source. The data is not. Explicitly, the data is under a different license than the GPL and makes no claims about being open source. There are total conversion mods that replace the closed source levels with open source ones however. > This model is open source, much in a similar way that the Doom engine is open source. Here's the source the engineers that created doom used to build the doom engine: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM Where is the source used to build this model?
- HanClinto 3y ago
  The source used to create the model is here: https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-src/blob/main/mistral/model.py https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-src/blob/main/mistral/m... The source used to train information into the model is elsewhere. You have the engine. You don't have the source of the data.
  - monocasa 3y ago
    That's the inference source as stated in the readme > This repository contains minimal code to run our 7B model
    - HanClinto 3y ago
      The code I linked is the model source -- the structural skeleton. You can create a model with this source and put whatever weights you want in it -- just like Doom.
      - monocasa 3y ago
        That is some source. That is not the source behind what built the 14GB model.
        HanClinto 3y ago
        If you create a model with this code and save it to disk, it will indeed be 14GB. It will be random weights -- the contents won't be there -- but it will be 14GB. If you use only what is open-source about Doom, you will have an unplayable game. If you use only what is open-source about Mistral, you will have an ineffective model. It's not nothing.
        monocasa 3y ago
        The claim is that the complete model, including the weights, is open source. Doom explicitly doesn't cover it's assets as open source.

monocasa 3y ago

> Is "Doom" open source? > The source code to the engine is available and open, but if you want to do anything useful or recreate the original game, you have to provide your own data. The Doom executable is open source. The data is not. Explicitly, the data is under a different license than the GPL and makes no claims about being open source. There are total conversion mods that replace the closed source levels with open source ones however. > This model is open source, much in a similar way that the Doom engine is open source. Here's the source the engineers that created doom used to build the doom engine: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM Where is the source used to build this model?

HanClinto 3y ago
The source used to create the model is here: https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-src/blob/main/mistral/model.py https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-src/blob/main/mistral/m... The source used to train information into the model is elsewhere. You have the engine. You don't have the source of the data.
- monocasa 3y ago
  That's the inference source as stated in the readme > This repository contains minimal code to run our 7B model
  - HanClinto 3y ago
    The code I linked is the model source -- the structural skeleton. You can create a model with this source and put whatever weights you want in it -- just like Doom.
    - monocasa 3y ago
      That is some source. That is not the source behind what built the 14GB model.
      - HanClinto 3y ago
        If you create a model with this code and save it to disk, it will indeed be 14GB. It will be random weights -- the contents won't be there -- but it will be 14GB. If you use only what is open-source about Doom, you will have an unplayable game. If you use only what is open-source about Mistral, you will have an ineffective model. It's not nothing.
        monocasa 3y ago
        The claim is that the complete model, including the weights, is open source. Doom explicitly doesn't cover it's assets as open source.