We call software FOSS when you can compile (if needed) and build the project yourself, locally, granted you have the resources available. If you have parts that aren't FOSS attached to the project somehow, we call it "Open Core" or similar. You wouldn't call a software project FOSS if the only thing under a FOSS license is the binary itself, or some other output, we require at least the code to be FOSS for it to be considered FOSS.
Meta/Llama probably started the trend, and they still today say "The open-source AI models" and "Llama is the leading open source model family" which is grossly misleading.
You cannot download the Llama models or weights without signing a license agreement, you're not allowed to use it for anything you want, you need to add a disclaimer on anything that uses Llama (which almost the entire ecosystem breaks as they seemingly missed this when they signed the agreement) and so on, which to me goes directly against what FOSS means.
If you cannot reproduce the artifact yourself (again, granted you have the resources), you'd have a really hard time convincing me that that is FOSS.
Meta/Llama probably started the trend, and they still today say "The open-source AI models" and "Llama is the leading open source model family" which is grossly misleading.
You cannot download the Llama models or weights without signing a license agreement, you're not allowed to use it for anything you want, you need to add a disclaimer on anything that uses Llama (which almost the entire ecosystem breaks as they seemingly missed this when they signed the agreement) and so on, which to me goes directly against what FOSS means.
If you cannot reproduce the artifact yourself (again, granted you have the resources), you'd have a really hard time convincing me that that is FOSS.