alt Hacker News> Devstral 2 ships under a modified MIT license, while Devstral Small 2 uses Apache 2.0. Both are open-source and permissively licensed to accelerate distributed intelligence.
Uh, the "Modified MIT license" here[0] for Devstral 2 doesn't look particularly permissively licensed (or open-source):
> 2. You are not authorized to exercise any rights under this license if the global consolidated monthly revenue of your company (or that of your employer) exceeds $20 million (or its equivalent in another currency) for the preceding month. This restriction in (b) applies to the Model and any derivatives, modifications, or combined works based on it, whether provided by Mistral AI or by a third party. You may contact Mistral AI ([email protected]) to request a commercial license, which Mistral AI may grant you at its sole discretion, or choose to use the Model on Mistral AI's hosted services available at https://mistral.ai/.
[0] https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Devstral-2-123B-Instruct-25...
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Earnestly, what's the concern here? People complain about open source being mostly beneficial to megacorps, if that's the main change (idk I haven't looked too closely) then that's pretty good, no?
Mistral have used janky licenses in that a few times in the past. I was hoping the competition from China might have snapped them out of it.
Is such a term even enforceable? How would it be? How could Mistral know how much a company makes if that information isn't public?
Personally I really like the normalization of these "Permissively" licensed models that only restrict companies with massive revenues from using them for free.
If you want to use something, and your company makes $240,000,000 in annual revenue, you should probably pay for it.