License question, is it based on Llama license?
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JLouisBiz
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Is this model based on Llama license? As that license is proprietary and not free software.
You have released TinyLlama under Apache 2.0 which is commendable, but I wish to be sure that it is not based on Llama proprietary software license by mistake. Please explain me.
Good evening @JLouisBiz
The TinyLLaMA project has been there before Meta even released LLaMA3 or 3.1 as far as I remember.
I think the LLaMA architecture itself is not licensed, and TinyLLaMA was trained from scratch (as stated in the README.md).
Therefore, they retain the rights to publish the model under the Apache2.0 license and do not have to abide to restrictions set by Meta's LLaMA3 license.
Hope you have a great day.