This has nothing to do with the newly appointed fellow nor Meta Superintelligence Labs, but rather work from FAIR that would have gone through a lengthy review process before seeing the light of day. Not fun to see the license change in any case

afaik now FAIR lives under the MSL umbrella https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1940109829781270799

Yeah the org structure is one thing, the missions are another. Yann adds some clarity here

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-lecun_were-excited-to-ha...

I remember DINOv2 was originally a commercial licence. I (along with others) just asked if they could change it on a GitHub issue, and after some time, they did. Might be worth asking

Seems like it was originally CC-BY-NC.