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Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year

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202 points Jabrov | 2 comments | 16 May 25 10:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source
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paxys ◴[16 May 25 13:30 UTC] No.44005300[source]▶
> The terms of the MIT license require that it distribute the copyright notice in both source and binary form.

No, MIT does not require that. The license says:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

The exact meaning of this sentence has never been challenged and never been ruled upon. Considering ollama's README has a link to llama.cpp's project page (which includes the license), I'd say the requirement has been satisfied.

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camgunz ◴[16 May 25 13:51 UTC] No.44005540[source]▶
"The above copyright notice" refers to this line [0] from llama.cpp's LICENSE: "Copyright (c) 2023-2024 The ggml authors". ollama doesn't include it.

[0]: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/LICENSE#L3...

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1. NitpickLawyer ◴[16 May 25 14:23 UTC] No.44005890[source]▶
> ollama doesn't include it.

I see it here? https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/llama/llama.cpp/L...

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2. Tomte ◴[16 May 25 15:01 UTC] No.44006342[source]▶
Download a binary release of ollama and show that line again.