What OpenMDW 1.1 guarantees an enterprise that an Apache license on model weights can't
When the Linux Foundation released version 1.1 of its OpenMDW license on May 28, the name that carried was Nvidia's. The chip-maker plans to adopt the license across future releases of its Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, Ising and Nemotron open model families, spanning agentic AI, quantum computing, robotics and simulation. A company of that size putting its name to an open license is the signal the open source world has been waiting for.
Mike Dolan walks through the detail of what the license is for over a Zoom call. Dolan is Senior Vice President of Legal and Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation – the person who shepherds projects into the foundation and builds the legal frameworks that hold them together, rather than the one usually on stage. He rarely does interviews and is careful with his answers, but he is unusually willing to work through why OpenMDW – short for...
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