Hi Matthew, Thank you for the reply. If I am understanding correctly, if I sell to my customers something that needs to be downloaded, then I need to provide the license. I guess it would come down to whether or not I provide them with the source code in the purchase.
Thanks again On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 2:18:51 PM UTC-4, Matthew Seal wrote: > > Hi Brendan, > > It's definitely possible to build products on top of Jupyter Notebooks. > There's many companies doing this already in a number of domains and > offerings. The governance is more about managing the open source code and > engagements that promote Jupyter. For building a commercial product you > usually don't need to worry about the project internal governance. > > Most (perhaps all?) software under Jupyter is licensed with 3-clause BSD > license <https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/blob/master/LICENSE> which > gives open permission to reuse the code without needing to coordinate with > Jupyter teams. If you distribute code to people you have to include the > license as described in the link. Hosting a webserver doesn't require this > license sharing, just if you send someone source code from the open source > repositories. > > If you contribute code that can be shared we're always happy to take pull > requests to get that code into the open source repositories as well so you > and others can equally benefit. > > Hope that helps, > Matt > > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:11 AM Brendan Smith <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to build a commercial educational product using Jupyter >> Notebooks. Is this possible? >> >> I have read Jupyter's governance, but am struggling to fully disentangle >> the legal jargon. >> >> Thank you for your time, >> Best, >> Brendan Smith >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Project Jupyter" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/2c4b064f-9c69-42e6-9a51-eca24872ad24%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/2c4b064f-9c69-42e6-9a51-eca24872ad24%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/5ba8bd9c-d3ba-4fa8-9edb-c05670bad36e%40googlegroups.com.
