"Using the term 'ethical' to describe this category license clearly indicates its functional difference from open source licenses."

#SidSijbrandij, 2023

https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2023-06-27-ai-weights-are-not-open-source/

No, it doesn't. Because the difference between use-restrictions licenses and Open Source licenses is *not* that one is based on ethical motivations. They *both* are. Conflicting ones. Utilitarian ethics vs. liberationist ethics. Calling use-restriction licenses "ethical" is as biased as calling them "authoritarian".

"Unlike software licensing, AI isn’t as simple as applying current proprietary/open source software licenses. AI has multiple components—the source code, weights, data, etc.—that are licensed differently. AI also poses socio-ethical consequences that don’t exist on the same scale as computer software, necessitating more restrictions like behavioral use restrictions, in some cases, and distribution restrictions."

#SidSijbrandij

https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2023-06-27-ai-weights-are-not-open-source/

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