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Open Ledger corpus moves to a share-alike licence from April

The data trust says models trained on the corpus after the change must publish their training data terms under the same licence. Existing downloads keep their current terms.

Heat at demo clock
17.4
Independent sources
3
Reports
3
First seen
Last report
In briefings
Thu 12 Mar

Timeline and provenance

Every report on this event, oldest first. All times UTC.

  1. First report

    Open Ledger corpus moves to a share-alike licence from April

    Open Ledger Data Trust Notices Official, tier 1

    The data trust says models trained on the corpus after the change must publish their training data terms under the same licence. Existing downloads keep their current terms.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

  2. Coverage

    Dataset licence change could affect fine-tuning projects

    The Latent Weekly Press, tier 2

    Teams that fine-tune on the Open Ledger corpus will need to review the new share-alike terms before April, lawyers consulted by the newsletter say.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

  3. Coverage

    What the share-alike switch means for small labs

    Builders Forum top threads Community, tier 3

    A thread on whether small teams can keep using the corpus after April; several replies misread the start date.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

How the heat adds up

10 × 0.5age / 24 h per independent source, newest report only, within 48 h.

At the demo clock, 12 Mar, 09:00 UTC.
SourceReportAgeWeightPointsWhy
Open Ledger Data Trust Notices11 Mar, 10:0023 h0.5155.15counted
The Latent Weekly11 Mar, 13:0020 h0.5615.61counted
Builders Forum top threads11 Mar, 19:0014 h0.6676.67counted
Total17.43 sources counted

6 hours earlier, at 12 Mar, 03:00 UTC, the heat was 20.7, so the trend is cooling (−3.3). How trends are labelled

Why these reports are one event

Joined when similarity reaches 0.35: 0.6 × shared entities + 0.4 × shared wording, and at least one shared entity.

ReportDecisionEvidence
Open Ledger Data Trust Notices, 11 Mar, 10:00newStarted this event: no open event scored above the threshold.
The Latent Weekly, 11 Mar, 13:00joinedScore 0.713 against the Open Ledger Data Trust Notices report: entities 1.00, wording 0.28. Shared: Open Ledger Data Trust, Open Ledger corpus.
Builders Forum top threads, 11 Mar, 19:00newStarted an event of its own: no open event scored above the threshold. An editor later moved it here.
Builders Forum top threads, 11 Mar, 19:00mergedEditor override: The thread names no entity, so the algorithm cannot match it, but it discusses this licence change.

Named in this event

Open Ledger Data Trust, Open Ledger corpus