We are using a software package called svmlight and a derivative called
svmlight-tk to train machine learning models in research. If the results
are good we would like to include the models in cTAKES. We thought we
should consult legal because this software uses a custom license not
covered by FAQs, and we just want to be on the safe side. The full text
of the license is attached.
(Just in case the attachment doesn't work I was able to find it on the
web here: http://morphix-nlp.berlios.de/manual/node48.html but not at
the svmlight webpage.)
To be clear, we do not want to redistribute the svmlight or svmlight-tk
source or binaries or even use maven to download them. There is code in
clearTK which can read these models and process new data and is license
compatible. We are only talking about distributing models trained with
the svmlight and svmlight-tk packages.
Thanks,
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Tim Miller, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Children's Hospital Informatics Program
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
617-919-1223
SVM-Light
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Available at http://svmlight.joachims.org/
Author: Thorsten Joachims
[email protected]
Cornell University
Department of Computer Science
4153 Upson Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
USA
LICENSING TERMS
This program is granted free of charge for research and education
purposes. However you must obtain a license from the author to use it
for commercial purposes.
Scientific results produced using the software provided shall
acknowledge the use of SVM-Light. Please cite as
T. Joachims, Making large-Scale SVM Learning
Practical. Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector
Learning, B. Sch�lkopf and C. Burges and A. Smola (ed.),
MIT-Press, 1999.
http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/DOKUMENTE/joachims_99a.pdf
Moreover shall the author of SVM-Light be informed about the
publication.
The software must not be modified and distributed without prior
permission of the author.
By using SVM-Light you agree to the licensing terms.
NO WARRANTY
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