Thank you Vipul, you and the others are really doing god’s work and have the full support of myself and my academic research team, who are eager to push the boundaries with data, prompts, and investigations of whatever you release (in fact, we have spent the last couple of months working to produce multi-lingual prompts and enriching the few open models we had so far). Just a very quick point of feedback.
While I am not a lawyer and Apache 2.0 is likely to be unproblematic, I always find it puzzling as to why people recently are opting to license non-software using software licenses (Apache 2.0 in particular). Hopefully you have access to sensible lawyers, but I was always under the expectation that model weights would fall under a license such as CC-BY rather than Apache 2.0. Sadly it has been too long since I read the recommendations and justifications for this, so I can not find a good reference, but seem to recall the advice came out of FSF.
While I am not a lawyer and Apache 2.0 is likely to be unproblematic, I always find it puzzling as to why people recently are opting to license non-software using software licenses (Apache 2.0 in particular). Hopefully you have access to sensible lawyers, but I was always under the expectation that model weights would fall under a license such as CC-BY rather than Apache 2.0. Sadly it has been too long since I read the recommendations and justifications for this, so I can not find a good reference, but seem to recall the advice came out of FSF.