They could be crowdfunded. You could even have a system where only contributors to the crowdfund have a license to use it.

>How is open source going to work when governments start declaring models as munitions?

I mean open source cryptography did win that battle in the end. Even if it's illegal you could host the model weights on i2psnark and crowdfund with monero.

>I mean open source cryptography did win that battle in the end.

And it took a long time and it's something still at risk.

>Even if it's illegal

If your pissing around with munitions laws you might as well go commit all the felonies cause you'll end up in the same prison.

If you get caught