Hi, yes +1 for hosting on IKS server.
- Fabian Am Montag, 12. September 2011 schrieb Olivier Grisel : > 2011/9/12 Stefane Fermigier <[email protected] <javascript:;>>: > > > > On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Rupert Westenthaler wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür > >> <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > >>> Add them to svn? The files aren't that big. A similar issue but maybe > >>> a bit harder to solve is the downloaded dbpedia data, I don't think > >>> the released version should depend on third party servers for > >>> compiling. > >>> > >> The reason why the OpenNLP models are not yet hosted @apache.org is > >> because of licenses issues. > > > > Which are ? What's the license on the NLP models ? If they are on > SourceForge, they should me open source. > > Those models are statistically derived from copyrighted material that > is available for NLP researchers under a restrictive license "for > research purpose only". Hence the license of such derived work is > somewhat "gray". Better have models trained on explicitly annotated > corpus freely redistributable for a any purpose. That's why I started > the pignlproc project to build models from Wikipedia and contacted the > OpenNLP developers to collaborate on this. They started an effort in > that direction but nobody has enough time to finish building & testing > models with good enough quality so far. > > > If they are under a license incompatible with apache.org, OK, but > nothing prevents the IKS project from hosting open source stuff, right ? > > +1 for mirroring the models on a IKS server. > > -- > Olivier > http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel > -- Fabian http://twitter.com/fctwitt
