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Strypey

"Using the term 'ethical' to describe this category license clearly indicates its functional difference from open source licenses."

, 2023

opencoreventures.com/blog/2023

No, it doesn't. Because the difference between use-restrictions licenses and Open Source licenses is *not* that one is based on ethical motivations. They *both* are. Conflicting ones. Utilitarian ethics vs. liberationist ethics. Calling use-restriction licenses "ethical" is as biased as calling them "authoritarian".

opencoreventures.comAI weights are not open "source"AI weights inherently differ from source code, and many “free-use” licenses include usage restrictions. We should call open “source” AI weights Open Weights when there are no usage restrictions and Ethical Weights when there are.