Some “Open” LLM’s are more open than others. While some implement licenses that we know very well from software projects such as MIT and Apache2, some of the recent models include very specific restrictions in licensing, such as complete exclusion of commercial use in Europe for llama3.3. This makes the use of these LLM models in proprietary software and products a high risk that needs to be flagged and mitigated.
high risk licenses
- llama3.3
- no commercial use in europe
restricted licenses
- llama3.1
- llama3.2
- when more than 700 million users per month, license from meta is needed
permissive licenses
- MIT
- Apache-2.0
resources
- list of llm’s with their respective licenses: https://llm.extractum.io/list/