[License-discuss] DIscussion on FMLL v1.0: A License for Free Artificial Intelligence

[David Woolley]

In general, I don't think it is close to being well drafted, but I'll
pick some points specific to the application.

On Thu, 2026-07-16 at 16:28 +1000, Mihail Poteha wrote:
> I am an independent developer from Russia, and I am creating my own
> AI license. To date, I have not found a license for Open AI. All
> existing licenses, including OSAID, allow datasets to be withheld,
> either partially or in full, thereby creating a “black box.” Such

For most applications of AI training on datasets that you can freely
redistribute will give them inadequate diversity to be useful in the
real world.

> licenses also fail to protect the rights holders of the datasets. I
> disagree with this approach.

Nothing in the main text stood out as achieving that, and it seemed to
me that the licence only really works if none of authors of the
training material intend to exercise any of their rights.
> 
> Theoretical Reproducibility. A property of the model’s source file
> that, in theory, makes it possible to recreate a complete copy of the
> language model’s source file on the basis of the instructions and
> tools specified in the AI Body. The Author must provide complete 

AI models are trained using random numbers, and training tends to be
massively parallel.  Even with explicit seeds, programming languages do
not specify the algorithm used to create the random sequences, so they
could differ over time and between machines.  The parallelism also
introduces the possibility of different scheduling orders.

At inference time, simpler user interfaces won't include the ability to
set seed values, and many users will not want exact repeatability.  For
training that converges and inference that converges, you can only
define statistical properties of the result, not exact values.

I'm not sure if the OSD forces you to publish private modifications,
but it is generally not part of the open source culture, and it is
unenforceable, because it is happening in private.