Complaint: Instella-MoE is a non-free ML application

#5
by JLouisBiz - opened

All of Instella-MoE's model weights are released under the ResearchRAIL license, which restricts use to academic and research purposes only. This is not a free license — it prohibits commercial use and restricts users' freedom to use the model.

In addition, Instella-MoE's pretraining used 7.1 trillion tokens from a data mixture. If that mixture contains any non-free-licensed data sources (such as CC-BY-NC), then even if the model weights were free (they are not), the application as a whole would still be non-free under the FSF's criteria.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Saying "fully open" in description isn't just to free software users.

Either you remove those statements or make it truly fully open.

Otherwise it is deception.

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