Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> […] In the case of a pretrained neural network, the source code is the
> training data.
>
> In fact, they are probably not redistributable unless all the training
> data is supplied, since the GPL's definition of "source code" is the
> "preferred form for modification". For a pretrained neural network
> that is the training data.
One hopeful sign is that people are addressing the need for the source
form of a machine-learning product. In this case, it's by offering a
version control system customised to machine-learning data.
<URL:https://blog.dataversioncontrol.com/data-version-control-tutorial-9146715eda46>
Is that an approach we can recommend to upstream developers who publish
machine-learning data sets?
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