alt Hacker NewsA lot of the previous Qwen models seem to have used Apache licenses, among others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwen#List_of_models
Unfortunately, it looks like this model is using a much more restrictive license:
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unrented7977 • today at 2:53 PM
I'm willing to bet a nonzero amount of its training material is GPL, so I'll treat it as GPL licensed instead and use it however the fuck I want.
If AI labs get to ignore licenses, so do we.
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gregoriol • today at 2:19 PM
Was going to post about this: the last image models with Apache 2.0 license seem to be from 2025, recent Qwen models are "non-commercial use".
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plufz • today at 3:06 PM
What are the top image models that still use a less restrictive license today?
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ReptileMan • today at 3:39 PM
Tune the weights a bit and call them derivative work.
Calling open-weights as open-source in marketing materials is the usual misrepresentation. But now with the restriction on commercial use (which is against opensource definition) it is not even open-weights, technically it would be more accurate to call it weights-available.