On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29/05/2014 21:40, Lisa Seacat DeLuca wrote: >> "Are we sure that we can use the machine translation from an IP >> perspective? " >> >> Yes, I spoke to Olivier Fontana (added to the CC list) who is the >> Director of Product Strategy and Marketing, Machine Translation group, >> at Microsoft Research about whether or not there were any licensing >> concerns with the output of the documentation that went through the >> Machine Translation tool and he said there was not an issue and that we >> would still "own the content" as long as we didn't take the result to >> build our own language model that might be used as a competitor to >> Microsoft's machine translation service... which we do not intend to do. > > I hate to rain on your parade but any restriction on how the result is > used that goes further than the (very few) restrictions in the ALv2 > means that the result it can't be licensed under the ALv2 and that will > cause problems. >
I agree - that at least causes me concern. In general - you must be able to use it for any purpose; that restriction, albeit a niche is still a restriction on use. --David
