Hi Matthew, Thank you for the additional information. This helps clarify things more. I think the core of the product would involve distribution of bundles of pre-made Jupyter notebooks. The user would then download and use the .ipynb files. In fact, I bet anyone who is savy enough to be able to utilize the code that parses such files would be able to simply make the notebooks that I am selling themselves.
Best, Brendan Smith On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 12:35:36 PM UTC-4, Matthew Seal wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> 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] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:18 AM Matthew Seal <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>) >> > >> > [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] >> <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 >> . >> > > >> > > -- >> > > 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/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] <javascript:>. >> > 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] <javascript:>. >> 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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