The Linux Foundation quietly released a new license for AI models and their artifacts earlier this month. The new OpenMDW license is a highly permissive license, that combines some aspects of the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses that are currently a popular choice for licensing AI models. It’s also very short and easily fits on a single page.
OpenMDW was born out of another Linux Foundation effort, the Model Openness Framework (MOF), which tries to help users evaluate how open a given model actually is. That framework classifies model into…

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