<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 5:06\u202fPM Richard Fontana via License-review <<a href="mailto:license-review@lists.opensource.org">license-review@lists.opensource.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Yes. Incidentally, the OSI should bear in mind that OpenMDW-1.1<br>
functions as a "plain old software license" because it is designed in<br>
part to be used for software. I might view it somewhat differently if<br>
it was presented as, say, a "weights license" only (perhaps submitted<br>
as a special sort of "AI license" under what I gather was contemplated<br>
when the OSAID was adopted). I don't think the OSI should be<br>
classifying this as an "AI license" and adopting some new, presumably<br>
looser, standard of approval for it based on that classification. It<br>
is by design not a license just for models in a narrow sense, it is a<br>
license for code as well as other stuff. If it is approved, someone<br>
could conceivably use it in a completely non-AI-related context<br>
involving just code.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Richard, this is a good point, and I'd like to expand on it a bit. OpenMDW-1.1 was submitted for review as a software license, under the same standard as any other license OSI <span class="Asgive ng" style="border-style:none;background:none">has </span>reviewed. We are not asking for an AI-specific classification or a looser OSD interpretation. Your observation about non-AI reuse is correct and by design: inference code, preprocessing tools, or other software licensed under OpenMDW-1.1 as part of one release can be extracted and reused by developers with entirely different model weights <span class="Asgive ng" style="border-style:none;background:none">that are </span>under other licenses, or with no model at all. Each component published under the license carries the OpenMDW grant, and the license needs to work as a plain software license in that very scenario.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div></div></div>