Georges Khaznadar writes ("Re: Concerns to software freedom when packaging deep-learning based appications."): > The question is, what are sources of Y? I presume that any sane judge > would agree that in that case, sources are the set of materials and > immaterials which allow one to rebuild consistently the object Y. Hence, > the sources are: > > 1- the random matrix used to initialize the neural network > 2- the training algorithm > 3- the (big) data to feed the training process
I agree with these. > 4- if no commercial machine exists at a "fair price", to train the > neural network in a reasonable amount of time, the publisher of Y > must lend a machine to fulfill the GPL requirements. This is ... quite a novel theory. I don't think anyone else would agree with it, and certainly not anyone we ought to believe. Ian.