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Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by aloer on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:09PM (#36779131)
Lately I’ve been wondering if a license similar to this but instead based on market cap could be a way to monetize open source projects

E.g. 100k/year for each trillion in market cap, updated yearly. First trillion is free

Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by geysersam on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:39PM (#36779443)
It probably costed tens of millions to create the model. 100k per trillion market cap won't pay for that investment. If there was a potential trillion dollar market cap for applications of this model they wouldn't give it away for free. Facebook does not have a trillion dollar market cap.
Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by cududa on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:28PM (#36779332)
Seems mostly very doable.

Back in 2011 at my (failed) startup we had a license like that with an NLP provider/ vendor. I don't remember the exact details, but, one caveat was that we HAD to have an equity part to the deal to satisfy Delaware Law/ some other esoteric bit I don't recall.

We already had negotiated an equity stake baked into the agreement, but I do recall that being a very specific requirement both our lawyers raised. I wonder how you could scale something like your proposed scenario and the overhead for the equity requirement, for open source projects.

Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by johannes1234321 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:28PM (#36779334)
So I create a company, which serves as a proxy, keeping my market cap low (yay private company) and sell the service of running your open source software for others.

One way or another it will be tricked.

Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by londons_explore on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:30PM (#36779353)
"This license is revocable at any time, if, in the opinion of the author, the spirit of the license isn't being upheld".
Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by IanCal on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @07:26PM (#36780335)
It can be, but I think at this scale it's both very hard to hide and very easy to negotiate a real deal. If you've got a billion users and you think you can offer a worthwhile service you can pay for people to negotiate a license. Dealing with a bunch of tiny companies carefully constructed or who happen to set themselves up just isn't going to be worth the hassle.

The limit here is about 10% of the worlds population.

Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI by londons_explore on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:28PM (#36779333)
Problem is then it wouldn't be truly open source. And if your project isn't opensource, a lot of other projects can't include/link/build on your project.