Hi Walter, thanks for noticing but the OpenNLP models are not included in this release. Those models are downloaded during the build process and are not part of the source release bundle itself. This difference ensures that we are not delivering the models directly and get in any trouble with the licenses. I am not a legal expert but AFAIK our mentors agreed that this would be okay with the ASF policies.
Best, - Fabian Am 20. März 2012 09:57 schrieb Walter Kasper <[email protected]>: > Hi Fabian, > > I noticed that there are OpenNLP models included in the release. Has their > license status been clarified? As far as I am aware this is still an open > issue (see e.g. > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.opennlp.user/104): > >> Katrin, >> >> Hmm... maybe I'll be writing a fact page to go on our web-site until we >> get this straightened out. >> >> 1) The models at sourceforge are primarily used only for research. No >> commercial usage. >> 2) Most of the corpus are heavily copyrighted and exclude all >> commercial usage. Mostly because they are fully copyrighted texts and >> are treated as most books are... >> > > Best, > > Walter > > -- > Dr. Walter Kasper > DFKI GmbH > Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 > D-66123 Saarbrücken > Tel.: +49-681-85775-5300 > Fax: +49-681-85775-5338 > Email: [email protected] > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH > Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern > > Geschaeftsfuehrung: > Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender) > Dr. Walter Olthoff > > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: > Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes > > Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Fabian http://twitter.com/fctwitt
