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How can I find a local coding LLM that wasn't trained on copyleft code?

It's an ethical concern, not a legal one, so if the data collection doesn't entirely rule out copyleft, that might be OK

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Olmo might be the closest you can get

https://allenai.org/olmo (website straight up crashes my phone)

https://huggingface.co/allenai/OLMo-7B

Olmo is trained on the Dolma dataset, “a diverse mixture of web content, scientific papers, code, public-domain books, social media, and encyclopedic materials”, so this might be a more ethical source, but I’m not sure if it’s copyleft free.

https://huggingface.co/papers/2402.00159

You could rent a cluster of GPUs and remove copyleft material and retrain

[–] staircase@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Dolma uses starcoder https://huggingface.co/blog/starcoder, which

are Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs) trained on permissively licensed data from GitHub

so this might do. Thanks.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 1 week ago

Only correct answer so far. Here's the licenses included in the dataset.