On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 3:17 AM SHUANG SU <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Hen,
>
> Thank you so much for the detailed checking.
>
> There is one more question about this file:
>
> > > <1> src/util/number.js
> > >
> > This file says this:
> >  * @see <
> https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/master/src/arrays/quantile.js>
> >  * @see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantile>
> > Assuming no code was copied, this seems fine. If code was copied from
> > either, then there is licensing to include (be that BSD for d3 or
> CC-BY-SA
> > for Quantile, the latter being a problem for us licensing wise).
>
> The method "quantile" in this file is only copied from the code of "d3"
> [1], which is under BSD.
> But the original code in "d3" [1] seems to use a formula on Wikipedia [2].
> So is it OK to use this "d3" code in "echarts" and only embed the BSD
> license of "d3" in the file "src/util/number.js" ?
>
>
> [1].
> https://github.com/d3/d3/blob/9cc9a875e636a1dcf36cc1e07bdf77e1ad6e2c74/src/arrays/quantile.js
> [2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantile . Search "R-7" in this page,
> get the formula.
>
>
Yes that's okay, treat that as you do other BSD licensed code copied from
d3.

The concept 'copied' from Wikipedia is the idea that a piece of mathematics
represents; the formula itself doesn't have copyrightable expression and
there's nothing else that appears to be being copied over from Wikipedia.

Hen

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