Hi Jelita It's hard to say from the description below whether the modifications would change Moses source code. You'd need to speak to the people that made the modifications.
Also, the LGPL only matters if you distribute your modified Moses. If you just use Moses to create translations, then the LGPL doesn't apply. As Tom says though, you'd be safer to speak to an IP lawyer on these matters, cheers - Barry cheers - Barry On 07/11/12 03:41, Jelita Asian wrote: > Hi Barry, > > Thanks. I looked at the link and LGPL but still wasn't too sure. > > Addtional features: > -Speed up Moses by pruning the translation tree. Is this act > considered as changing Moses source code? I think it's more about > changing the output tree if Moses but I'm not sure so I have to ask. > Sorry, I'm a bit vague because I'm not the one doing programming for this. > -Stemming untranslated words, not translating proper nouns, language > identification. I think these features don't change Moses code so > shall be fine. > > Thanks. > > Best regards, > > Jelita > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Barry Haddow > <bhad...@staffmail.ed.ac.uk <mailto:bhad...@staffmail.ed.ac.uk>> wrote: > > Hi Jelita > > Check the Moses faq on this topic, and the link into the LGPL > documentation > http://www.statmt.org/moses/? n=Moses.FAQ#ntoc18 > <http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.FAQ#ntoc18> > > It really depends what you mean by "an additional feature", and > whether you are distributing the software. > > cheers - Barry > > > On 06/11/12 08:11, Jelita Asian wrote: > > Hi, > > I have seen the link of http://comments.gmane.org/ > gmane.comp.nlp.moses.user/974 > <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.nlp.moses.user/974> > regarding proprietary software. > > I'm still not too sure about the permission of LGPL. I plan to > train an English and Indonesian parallel corpus using Moses. > We will add an additional feature to a commercial product. The > training is done using Moses with the language modelling such > as IRSTLM. I'm not sure whether I should distribute my code > which will defeat the purpose of a commercial product. Do I > need to get permission for each aspect of LGPL included in the > code? I don't plan to change the GPL/LGPL part of the code. > > Thanks. > > Best regards, > > Jelita > > > > > ______________________________ _________________ > Moses-support mailing list > Moses-support@mit.edu <mailto:Moses-support@mit.edu> > http://mailman.mit.edu/ mailman/listinfo/moses-support > <http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support> > > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list Moses-support@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
