Matthias and William covered the question fairly well. One thing I'd add is that you only need the license included for downloads if the download includes source code from Jupyter (or other) projects. e.g. Downloading a notebook .ipynb file does not require a license, but downloading the code that parses such a file from nbformat would. I also forgot to add the caveat of "I'm not a lawyer" so it's not my domain of expertise but I've worked with these types of licenses for a while now.
Best, Matt On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:25 PM Matthias Bussonnier < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the question, > > I am not a lawyer either and this is my personal interpretation of > the license, but more or less you can do almost whatever you want > with/to the code, you just need to make sure that attribution is > correct. For example this: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-made-this > is not allowed. > > Most of the governance and legal mentions are for the "name" Jupyter > and anything associated with the "brand". It roughly tell you that you > are allowed to say your product uses or is based on Jupyter, but you > cannot use a name or logos in a way that could have a user be confused > about whether or not your product is part of, or associated with > Jupyter. You also can't do modifications of the logo without > authorisations. Example "EduJupyter" would probably violate trademark. > If your site is predominantly blue, you are technically not allowed to > make a blue variation of the Jupyter Logo with your color. > > As a side note, defending the trademark is mandatory or the Jupyter > Project could lose it, if you ever ask "can I do X", and you get "no", > or we come to you and tell you you can't do Y, it might not be because > we don't like what you did, but because we are legally obliged if we > want to keep the trademark. > -- > Matthias > > On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 18:38, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:18 AM Matthew Seal <[email protected]> > 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. > > > > I founded one of those companies (see [1]), and I'm happy to video > > chat with you about my experiences. Of course, I am not a lawyer and > > do not speak for the Jupyter project, but it's possible my experience > > could be helpful. Feel free to contact me. > > > > -- William ([email protected]) > > > > [1] https://cocalc.com/doc/jupyter-notebook.html > > > > > > >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 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]> > 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]. > > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/2c4b064f-9c69-42e6-9a51-eca24872ad24%40googlegroups.com > . > > > > > > -- > > > 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/CAJF6vz41iGL8Z%3DsWwMua77NStf%3DTPDjQkETu65%2BTcth7caAGrw%40mail.gmail.com > . > > > > > > > > -- > > William (http://wstein.org) > > > > -- > > 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/CACLE5GB34DZsmKEZvGtGyiZSoEx%3DF05HAM8uKU%3DeXOco-M41KQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > > -- > 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/CANJQusVW2mz0cmiVJx%3D%3DwgsEd6v%2BXrD06swYtbs3JKGGLbMLxQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. 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