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License question

Open andrey-pr opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

Hello. LLAMA is custom-licensed product of meta, which distributed only for research purposes. Alpaca based on llama. Does it means that using of alpaca in commercial products is illegal?

andrey-pr avatar Mar 23 '23 19:03 andrey-pr

No, afaik all derivates from LLAMA have to use a non-commercial license too.

stefangrotz avatar Mar 23 '23 21:03 stefangrotz

From our Overlord Bing: According to a Stanford announcement, Alpaca is intended only for academic research and any commercial use is prohibited. This decision is based on three factors: First, Alpaca is based on LLaMA, which has a non-commercial license, so they necessarily inherit this decision1.

jeffwadsworth avatar Mar 23 '23 21:03 jeffwadsworth

No, afaik all derivates from LLAMA have to use a non-commercial license too.

So its like GPL or I can not install even unmodified alpaka in my commercial project?

andrey-pr avatar Mar 23 '23 21:03 andrey-pr

This repo is tagged as [Apache-2.0 license] (https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca/blob/main/LICENSE)

Jermanis avatar Mar 31 '23 21:03 Jermanis

From our Overlord Bing: According to a Stanford announcement, Alpaca is intended only for academic research and any commercial use is prohibited. This decision is based on three factors: First, Alpaca is based on LLaMA, which has a non-commercial license, so they necessarily inherit this decision1.

the license page shows Apache 2.0, which is a license allowing for commercial use: https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca/blob/main/LICENSE I think it's a mistake and they should change it.

tytung2020 avatar Jun 02 '23 04:06 tytung2020