And the source-code is licensed under a homebrewed license cooked up by Meta's lawyers, a license that only glancingly resembles anything from the #OpenSourceDefinition:

https://opensource.org/osd/

Core to Big Tech companies' "open AI" offerings are tools, like Meta's #PyTorch and Google's #TensorFlow. These tools are indeed "open source," licensed under real OSS terms.

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Great write up by Stephen O'Grady: Why Open Source Matters.

Astute observation that most of the time those who want to change the definition, or argue it doesn't matter, come from companies behind single vendor projects and are likely the same folks who are trying to sell you something 👀

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/08/03/why-opensource-matters/

#OpenSource #OpenSourceDefinition