What is the issue? ollama uses projects like llama.cpp as a statically linked dependency. The terms of the MIT license require that it distribute the copyright notice in both source and binary form...
No llama.cpp acknowledgement · Issue #3697 · ollama/ollama
What is the issue? This project is heavily dependent on llama.cpp, as seen in this search, but there is no mention of that in the readme. This creates some conflict and distaste for this project th...
Update README.md to include acknowledgements to llama.cpp by survirtual · Pull Request #3700 · ollama/ollama
resolves #3697
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Open source maintainers of major projects (hi) are not ready to accept and talk about how the cultural insistence on permissive licensing is just straight up labor exploitation taking advantage of our addiction to popularity (also hi). We’re doing this to ourselves too, you know.
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