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No, we're not. Not really.
You could call this "open source", yes, but by a very narrow and worthless definition of that, which has always been controversially narrow and abusive. What people MEAN when they say open source is "like Linux". Linux is based on, and follows the principles of Free Software:
When an LLM model's weights are free, but it's censored, you have half of freedom 0.
When an LLM model gives you the weights, but doesn't give you the code or the data, AND it's an uncensored model, you have freedom 0, but none of the others.
When you have the source code but no weights or data, you only have half of freedom 1 (you can study it, but not rebuild and run it, without a supercomputer and the data).
When you have the source code, the weights, AND the data, you have all four freedoms, assuming that you have the compute to rebuild the weights, or can pool resources to rebuild them.
So you list the gnu stuff, and then add "censored", but that's not goalpost moving? Come on.
0,1,2 and 3 ALL apply with an apache 2.0 license. Saying this is not open-source at this point is being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian, and I have no energy to type on this subject.
Quoting your own post fron gnu: Take the sourcecode, plug in c4 or redpajama or whatever, pay for the compute and you can get your own product. With the posted source code. I got nothing else.