Hi Jorn, If we trained a model and included it as a resource within the ASF repo, just wanted to confirm if that's acceptable in ASF even though it's in a binary format? Were there any issues for openNLP with including trained models?
Thanks, Pei > -----Original Message----- > From: Jörn Kottmann [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 8:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: licensing question > > On 08/01/2012 01:01 PM, Miller, Timothy wrote: > > There was some chatter last week about resources potentially being > downloaded via maven for license compatibility reasons. Just wondering if > that brings about the possibility of using external libraries that are not > apache-licensed that would also be auto-downloaded under certain maven > build commands. Specifically I was thinking of the GPL-licensed berkeley > parser which I've used to get significantly higher accuracy than the opennlp > parser we currently wrap in our constituency parser module. > > Making scripts or maven build commands which download stuff is fine, but it > might turn out to be quit limiting for your users which need the freedom of > the AL. That will be a problem if Berkeley is the only option. > > The HBase people for example have an optional dependency on LZO which is > GPL, and people there just need to install and download it themselves. > See here: > http://hbase.apache.org/book/lzo.compression.html > > Speaking as an OpenNLP committer now, it would of course be nice to make > our parser better. > If you want to work on that we will be happy to get some patches. > > Jörn
