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Moaz Reyad edited comment on SINGA-273 at 11/24/16 4:23 AM:
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Also in this ticket, we are going to fix the following license issues:
1. Doxyfile
(https://github.com/apache/incubator-singa/blob/master/doc/Doxyfile) can not
have comments and must have Apache license header. See
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
> Can we use Doxygen-generated config files?
> As long as the generated comments are removed from the Doxygen-generated
> files, these files may be used.
And see for example:
https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/master/lang/c%2B%2B/Doxyfile
2. The Tinydir license can be safely removed from SINGA, because it is already
included in tinydir.h
(https://github.com/apache/incubator-singa/blob/master/include/singa/utils/tinydir.h)
.
See https://github.com/cxong/tinydir :
> if you use tinydir you can comply by including tinydir.h
3. The LICENSE file says "SINGA bundles the following under BSD 3-clause
license: cmake/Profobuf.cmake"
However, I could not find this file in SINGA. And CMake is not bundled with the
project, so the CMake license can be removed.
4. The distribution of BSD licensed source code requires that the license
header is kept in the source code files, but no need to mention it in the
project license again.
See for example Caffe project that uses gtest :
https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/tree/master/src/gtest
So all these licenses can be safely removed from SINGA License :
SINGA bundles the following under New BSD license: test/gtest/*
SINGA bundles the following under New BSD license: tool/cpplint.py
SINGA bundles the following under New BSD license: src/python/swig/numpy.i
5. When using with CUDA, SINGA bundles the following under New BSD license:
lib/cnmem/*
This cnmem does not exist in SINGA, so we can remove this license.
was (Author: moazreyad):
Also in this ticket, we are going to fix the following license issues:
1. Doxyfile
(https://github.com/apache/incubator-singa/blob/master/doc/Doxyfile) can not
have comments and must have Apache license header. See
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
> Can we use Doxygen-generated config files?
> As long as the generated comments are removed from the Doxygen-generated
> files, these files may be used.
And see for example:
https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/master/lang/c%2B%2B/Doxyfile
2. The Tinydir license can be safely removed from SINGA, because it is already
included in tinydir.h
(https://github.com/apache/incubator-singa/blob/master/include/singa/utils/tinydir.h)
.
See https://github.com/cxong/tinydir :
> if you use tinydir you can comply by including tinydir.h
3. The LICENSE file says "SINGA bundles the following under BSD 3-clause
license: cmake/Profobuf.cmake"
However, I could not find this file in SINGA. And CMake is not bundled with the
project, so the CMake license can be removed.
> Improve license and contributions
> ---------------------------------
>
> Key: SINGA-273
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SINGA-273
> Project: Singa
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Moaz Reyad
> Priority: Minor
>
> The project needs a CONTRIBUTIONS.md file. (see
> https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines).
> Also the third party licenses are mixed with the project license and this
> makes the project license unclear. We may separate the third party license in
> the /thirdparty folder and keep the Apache 2.0 license in the project root
> folder.
> Finally, a license badge can be added to the README.md.
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