Fix license (Euryale is licensed under cc-by-nc-4.0)

My reading of Meta's Llama 3 license is that derivative works, including Euryale, are governed by Meta's license agreement. I don't believe that Sao10k's application of the cc-by-nc-4.0 is correct, and it's probably not legally enforceable.

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https://huggingface.co/bosonai/Higgs-Llama-3-70B is governed under another license, which is a superset of meta's license agreement. the meta license puts a limit of 700 million users for commercial use, the higgs one puts a 10 million limit and cc-by-nc-4.0 is the most strict here, making it completely non commercial. The meta license doesn't prohibit derivative models from being governed under stricter terms

I appreciate you looking out for this, but I am unaware of any authority that has mapped out the legal landscape of LLM merging. One plausible interpretation is that the most restrictive license represented in a merge should apply, but that is not the only plausible interpretation, and to the best of my knowledge it is still an unsettled legal matter. My inclination is to default to the root Meta license for this merge until someone with legal authority says otherwise. All that entity has to do is send me a notice with an explanation for why the license needs to change, and I'll change it.

In the meantime, I updated the Readme with a disclaimer about the uncertain license terms.

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