Re: Concerns to software freedom when packaging deep-learning based appications.
BTW, please keep me on CC, I am not subscribed to debian-devel.
Ximin Luo:
> Lumin:
>> [..]
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>> My core concern is:
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>> Even if upstream releases their pretrained model under GPL license,
>> the freedom to modify, research, reproduce the neural networks,
>> especially "very deep" neural networks is de facto controled by
>> PROPRIETARIES.
>>
>> [..]
> I think in general when one raise concerns, one should do some research to make it relevant to the actual real situation. Your mail cited my leela-zero package but contained no information specific to it. I'll supply the missing gaps:
>
> The Debian package leela-zero contains no "pretrained model", or "weights file" in its terminology.
>
> Leela Zero contains a program (autogtp) that generates and uploads raw game data, based on some weights you give it. Data generated by many volunteers is collected together and is available here [1] released into the public domain [2]. There's more than 1TB of it.
>
Correction here, there is currently 600GB generated since November 2017 and still growing.
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