I emailed the author of svmlight and he was very clear that our usage is
acceptable:
Hi Tim,
Using the models trained with my software in the way you describe is fine
with me for the application you describe. Feel free to include the trained
models in the distribution under any license you like...
Cheers
Thorsten
Tim
On 03/26/2013 10:04 AM, Tim Miller wrote:
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,
