Thank you Myrle for improving my question and giving it a right direction
and James for providing a great open source alternative to dialogflow. I'll
definitely explore Rasa.

Sincerely,
Anshul Singh

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:45 PM James Dailey <jamespdai...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Anshul - it's a good feature area to explore and build to.  +1 on what
> Myrle wrote as well.
>
> A quick look at Dialogue Flow - it's entirely closed source.  One open
> source alternative is
> https://rasa.com/docs/dialogflow/. And they have tools to port over from
> Google dialogflow so perhaps there is a way to architect this neutrally??
>
> Rasa is apache 2.0
> https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa_core/blob/master/README.md
>
> ...perhaps you can create the connectors to both of these external
> resources for a robust set of run time choices. Start perhaps w Rasa?
>
> Jdailey67
>
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>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019, 10:48 AM Myrle Krantz <my...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Hey Anshul,
> >
> > There are two parts to this question:
> >
> > a.) What license does it have?  For example the MIT and BSD licenses are
> > both Category A, which means they can be included in Apache Software
> > without problems.  (1)
> >
> > b.) Does this make your software's runtime dependent on a single vendor's
> > service?  Put differently, would your project promote vendor lock-in?  If
> > it does, then it would not be in the spirit of open source at Apache.  If
> > this vendor's service has competitors you could resolve this by making
> the
> > code flexible enough to support those other vendors.  If the vendor's
> > service is based solely on open source components, then you could argue
> > that someone else at least *could* deploy that service as well, but you
> > should be sure to make any addresses configurable rather than hard-coded.
> > (2)
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Myrle
> >
> > 1.) https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html
> > 2.) https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-is-open
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 6:13 AM Anshul Singh <anshul2300si...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > I have a query regarding license, can anyone who is concerned with it
> > help
> > > me.
> > > Can we *use* dialogflow (https://dialogflow.com/) inside an Apache 2.0
> > > licensed project for implementing chatbot in Google assistant?
> > > Thank you
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Anshul Singh
> > >
> >
>

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