Why change the licence ?
As Starling was fine tuned from Openchat 3.5 (based on Mistral-7B-v0.1), both which are licensed as Apache 2.0 which allows commercial use. Why then change the licensing to "Non Commercial" ? Could you consider changing the licence back to Apache 2.0 and to pay forward the generosity that was provided to you without strings attached ?
Thank you for the comment. The only reason that Starling is not commercial license is because we rely on GPT-4 generated data. The same thing applies for Openchat 3.5 and a lot of other commercial models, which can be risky since it may violate OpenAI ToS. You're free to use the model commercially if you're following OpenAI ToS and not competing with them. We might consider switching to conditional commercial license like this in the future as well.