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Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by amelius on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:36PM (#36777268)
> If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users (...)

I suggest we start doing a similar thing for FOSS projects. I.e., it's open source unless you are MegaCorp with profit > $1B, then you have to pay. Sounds fair to me, and might help FOSS to get some better funding.

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Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by vorpalhex on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:39PM (#36777308)
Then your project would no longer be FOSS.
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Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by amelius on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:40PM (#36777325)
Depends on what you value more. Strict adherence to some definitions someone once made up, or sustainable funding of your project.

If it bothers you, you can call it FOSS* instead.

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Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by blackoil on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @06:44PM (#36780029)
> sustainable funding of your project

You can always make a commercial closed source project.

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Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by nailer on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:18AM (#36783050)
This project is not open source. That part of the license violates the open source definition. Meta AI is lying when they write Llama 2 is open source .
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