https://opensource.org/license (linking to OSI for the list because it's convenient, not because they get to decide)
In English, proper nouns are capitalized.
"Open" and "source" are both very normal English words. English speakers have "the right" to use them according to their own perspective and with personal context. It's the difference between referring to a blue tooth, and Bluetooth, or to an apple store or an Apple store.
Who died and made OSI God?
We've seen people try to deceptively describe non-OSS projects as open source, and no doubt we will continue to see it. Thankfully the community (including Hacker News) is quick to call it out, and to insist on not cheapening the term.
This is one the topics that just keeps turning up:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24483168
Recently, companies are trying to market things as open source when in reality, they fail to adhere to the definition.
I think we should not let these companies change the meaning of the term, which means it's important to explain every time they try to seem more open than they are.
I'm afraid the battle is being lost though.
Inference code is the runtime; the code that runs the model. Not the model itself.
You can use that model with open data to train it from scratch yourself. Or you can load Meta’s open weights and have a working LLM.
That said the LLama-license doesn't meet strict definitions of OS, and I bet they have internal tooling for datacenter-scale training that's not represented here.
That makes it source available ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software ), not open source
It's not the "inference code", its the code that specifies the architecture of the model and loads the model. The "inference code" is mostly the model, and the model is not legible to a human reader.
Maybe someday open source models will be possible, but we will need much better interpretability tools so we can generate the source code from the model. In most software projects you write the source as a specification that is then used by the computer to implement the software, but in this case the process is reversed.
