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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a question regarding legal issues. > > I have one of my students implement PageRank in MapReduce, would it be > possible to contribute this to Mahout or are there any legal issues > prohibiting this? > > I read that Stanford is holding a patent on PageRank but I've seen a > PageRank implementation already included in the Pegasus Framework from > Carnegie Mellon University which is Apache licensed. > > Can someone help here with advice? > > --sebastian >
