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Mullenweg: Meta's Llama isn't truly open source due to user restrictions

Matt Mullenweg · Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand · Mar 2, 2025 · at 23:57

Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and co-creator of WordPress, explains why Meta's Llama AI model fails to qualify as genuine open source software.

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“However, there's a clause in it that says, if you're above a certain threshold of monthly active users, I forget what it is, like, it's big, it's like seven hundred fifty million, so it's pretty high. You need a license from them. And so that does not give you the freedom to use the software for any purpose, right?”

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