I figured out how to describe my complaint with the @osi's OS AI definition: it treats open source and freely licensed as equivalent in all cases.
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I figured out how to describe my complaint with the @osi's OS AI definition: it treats open source and freely licensed as equivalent in all cases. But they're not.
The checklist says you can provide a black box model under a free license as long as you document it. That isn't open source though because I don't have the original source, i.e. the dataset. It fails the second criteria of the OSD, i e. Source code.
As I've said previously, I think there are situations where freely licensed but well documented models might be justifiable. We as a community should have a way to recognize freely licensed models that do have that legitimate limitation. But it's not "open source"
The Open Source AI Definition – Checklist draft v. 0.0.9
version 0.0.9 Checklist to evaluate machine learning systems This checklist is based on the paper The Model Openness Framework: Promoting Completeness and Openness for Reproducibility, Transparency and Usability in AI…
Open Source Initiative (opensource.org)