Open Source AI FAQ: Definitions, Licenses, Models and Tools
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Plain answers to the questions people ask about open source AI: what counts as open, which licenses allow commercial use, and which tools are open.
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Open Model Licenses Compared: Apache-2.0, MIT, Llama, Gemma, RAIL and the EU AI Act
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What Apache-2.0, MIT, the Llama Community License, Gemma Terms, RAIL and Mistral's licenses actually require, plus a checklist to run before you ship.
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What Is Open Source AI? Open Weights vs Open Source vs Open Data
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Open weights are not open source. The OSI's Open Source AI Definition, the spectrum from OLMo to Llama to closed, and why the difference matters.
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AI · Open Source AI · Generative AI · model licensing · open source AI · open-weight models
Free Software vs Open Source: The History and Philosophy Behind the Licenses
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From GNU in 1983 to the OSI in 1998: how free software and open source split, what copyleft means, and why that history decides how we judge open AI.
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AI · Open Source AI · free software · model licensing · open source AI · Open Source India
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