Re: Please Help Fix MXNet Licensing Issues for the next Release!

2018-02-06 Thread Meghna Baijal
Henri, Thanks for the detailed information, Based on your review and the comments on the general VOTE thread, I have made some changes to the top level LICENSE file in this PR . The final changes to the LICENSE file can be summarized as follows

Re: Please Help Fix MXNet Licensing Issues for the next Release!

2018-02-01 Thread Hen
I think we should revert the license file to the previous, and improve from there. The policy is: "The LICENSE file MUST contain the full text of the Apache License 2.0 . When a package bundles code under several licenses, the LICENSE file MUST cont

Re: Please Help Fix MXNet Licensing Issues for the next Release!

2018-01-30 Thread Meghna Baijal
Hello Henri, Thank you for your review. As I have detailed in this PR , the previous version of the LICENSE file contained a list of packages which were using the BSD license (based on the license text), along with the whole content of the actua

Re: Please Help Fix MXNet Licensing Issues for the next Release!

2018-01-29 Thread Hen
The last paragraph of the LICENSE looks suspect. I doubt we've taken code from the BSD project. I would suggest deleting that last paragraph. With MIT and BSD licenses you do have to be careful that the text of each is the same. Each term is often used for a family of related licenses. Additional

Re: Please Help Fix MXNet Licensing Issues for the next Release!

2018-01-24 Thread Meghna Baijal
Marco, Thanks a lot for looking through this ! Some comments below - 1. *R-package:* Before we create the final tarball for the release, the R-package is explicitly removed from the cloned MXNet repo. The only info I have in this regard is that “there are some unresolved licensing issues

Re: Please Help Fix MXNet Licensing Issues for the next Release!

2018-01-24 Thread Marco de Abreu
Hi Meghna, thank you for driving the licensing issues! - R-package: In the linked wiki, you're mentioning that R-package is not a part of the release. Could you please elaborate? From my understand, all files in the GitHub repository are part of the release. - Dockerfiles: I just checked another

Re: Please Help Fix MXNet Licensing Issues for the next Release!

2018-01-24 Thread Meghna Baijal
Hello, This is an update on the current status of the license fixes (all details in the wiki linked below)– 1. I am constantly updating this wiki, so you can check it at any time to know the status - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/MXNet+Source+Licenses 2. All 7 PRs

Please Help Fix MXNet Licensing Issues for the next Release!

2018-01-18 Thread Meghna Baijal
Hello All! I am currently attempting to fix the licensing issues in MXNet. These are being tracked in this wiki - *https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/MXNet+Source+Licenses * You can follow the links in this w