I'm out of the loop on this entire thing so call me an idiot if I get it wrong. Isn't this whole movement based on a model leak from Meta? Aren't licenses involved that prevent it from going commercial?
Only the weights themselves. There have been other models since then built on the same Llama architecture, but trained from scratch so they're safe for commercial user. The GGML code and related projects (llama.cpp and so on) also support some other model types now such as Mosaic's MPT series.