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Vinnl • yesterday at 11:21 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Open source: source code available, and can be used for whatever.

Source-available: source code available, but only for viewing, not to make derivatives.

Freeware/shareware: source code not available, but software is free to run.

Not sure what the weights equivalent of that last one is, but I feel like this is more like source-available.


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thayne • today at 1:06 AM

It isn't a perfect analogy, but I think the weights of a model are closer to a compiled executable than source code.

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