The license of this model doesn't seem to be valid
Hey,
Was reading the documentation and noticed this disclaimer.
Isn't the whole POINT of a license to make some sort of Copyright legal claim that you have the necessary rights to license out a model, and are engaging in a legally binding activity?
AFAIK, a license is a legal document. So of course it's not legal "advice", but it is legally binding 😅.
But from my perspective, the Apache 2.0 license was never applied to this model, because you never included the Apache 2.0 license inside this repo. That seems to be a requisite for the Apache 2.0 license, or specifying exactly what part of the repo is under Apache 2.0 using very specific formatting.
Since you did neither, I don't think anyone could really claim this model was ever under apache-2.0.
I know this is not a "norm" on HuggingFace (but it IS a norm on Github), and might seem trivial, but to me it is significant.
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
At best, you have "tagged" the model with Apache 2.0 in the HuggingFace system, and written in a readme that it is (but using the wrong formatting), so that hardly seems like a legally binding act.
Just my 2 cents, since you seem to have dug yourself into a bit of a bind of desiring to license correctly, but think you're not able to.
I see this discussion was closed by @jfrankle after 2.5 hours with no comment or reason stated, which feels pretty... rude I guess?
Since it hides the discussion and basically makes it harder for people to write their opinions.
I'll clarify the issue again: The license on this repo is not valid. it is not a valid Apache-2.0 license because the repo itself does not follow the requirements of apache-2.0, so you might as well use the intended license you switched to in https://huggingface.co/mosaicml/mpt-7b-storywriter/commit/6a60d6b2df9e354570445b58a8a5813a9bd6d0b1
Closing this issue as "won't change."