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When Meta released the Llama series, it used a custom license with commercial restrictions, which has been criticized by some free software advocates as not being truly open source.
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7/22/2026
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UnverifiedMeta has made the weights of Llama 2/3 publicly available, but with specific commercial use restrictions.72% similarVerifiedMeta's LLaMA Community License permits free use and fine-tuning, but requires an additional commercial license for companies with more than 700 million monthly active users, and prohibits using model outputs to train competing models.71% similarUnverifiedMeta's LLaMA series uses a custom community license that explicitly prohibits unauthorized redistribution.70% similarUnverifiedOpen-source licenses (such as GPL and MIT License) impose restrictions on the manner in which software is used through contractual terms.69% similarVerifiedMeta's Llama series license explicitly prohibits use by commercial products with more than 700 million monthly active users and requires derivative models to retain brand identifiers.68% similar
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