<ASF hat> Actually anyone can take any of our Apache lice see content and redistribute under any license they want as long as the original content remains under the Apache License.
The ASF would not want to host that content though, we only put out Content under the Apache License. <Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. hat> I'd be happy to try to help iron out this wrinkle on behalf of Cordova if the Cordova PMC wants me to do so. I can make the conversation happen much more quickly being on the MS Campus (though I suggest Parashu might be a better person as he is active on the project and a colleague at MS Open Tech). Ross On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 14:08 PM, David Nalley <[email protected]> wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Mark Thomas <[email protected] <javascript:;>> 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 -- Sent from MetroMail
