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Breaking the Llama Community License

Published on: 2025-04-21 10:15:08

If you're distributing or redistributing a LLM model that is under the "Llama 3.3 Community License Agreement", you might be breaking at least one of the terms you've explicitly/implicitly agreed to. All of the Llama models and their derivatives (fine-tunes etc) of them is are covered by a Llama Community License. Disclaimer I (the author) am not a lawyer, and might not even be in the same country as you, while all of this is very depending on the jurisdiction. This post also doesn't try to outline what will happen if you break the agreement, but what claims Meta make. They might not be able to make these claims against you at all. It also doesn't apply if you already have your own agreement with Meta/Llama that superseedes the public license, nor if you're just a user of any of the llama models. The feeling I get from the ML/AI community right now, is that almost no one actually reads and follows the various license agreements they agree to follow, when they use models like Meta's ... Read full article.