2014/1/28 Gael Varoquaux <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:50:33PM +0100, Stéfan van der Walt wrote: >> When advertising scikit-learn in talks, it is useful to construct >> minimal snippets from the examples gallery. However, some of those >> pieces of code (all?) are released under the BSD license, which then >> needs to be displayed. > > I had never worried about that, and I guess nobody usually does. Do > people actually respect that clause in slides? > > Just put a tiny "BSD licensed" somewhere in the slide > >> Would it be possible to release just the examples under CC0? > > CC0 is usually not advised for code, though I agree that in the case of > examples we are in a borderline case.
Indeed. But isn't it a case of fair-use under U.S. law anyway? > Practically, to relicense we would need to have the agreement of all the > authors of each example. As we don't own the copyright, we cannot > relicense. > > Team: do you think that it is worth trying to relicense our examples, or > should we not bother? I don't think it's really worth it but if you have my agreement to double-license BSD / CC0 any sklearn example I contributed to. -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WatchGuard Dimension instantly turns raw network data into actionable security intelligence. It gives you real-time visual feedback on key security issues and trends. Skip the complicated setup - simply import a virtual appliance and go from zero to informed in seconds. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=123612991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
