Llama Made Crystal Clear · chapter 3: The Licence: What You're Actually Agreeing To
Two definitions of open source, and the license Llama actually ships under
2026-09-30
Below: the paragraph from the book that builds this idea, then the diagram itself (Figure 3.2), and a recap. About a minute of reading.
Willison frames this explicitly as a "credible theory," his own informed speculation, not a confirmed statement of Meta's motives. He also notes this is not a new pattern for the company: he traces a similar move back to 2017, when Meta released the React JavaScript library under a restrictive custom patent license while still calling it "open source," a decision Meta reversed after developer backlash. This book treats Willison's EU AI Act theory the same way he does: a plausible, worth-stating explanation, credited to him by name, not a fact about Meta's internal reasoning.
Recap
- The idea: Two definitions of open source, and the license Llama actually ships under.
- The picture: Figure 3.2, from chapter 3 ("The Licence: What You're Actually Agreeing To") of Llama Made Crystal Clear.
- Go deeper: the chapter builds this step by step, with recipes and sources at the end.
This diagram is one of many in Llama Made Crystal Clear.
Every chapter opens with the gist, draws the hard ideas, and ends with recipes and sources.
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