On Friday 04 April 2008, Farid Bourennani wrote:
> This being sad, are the publications related to the Hybrid machine learning
> algorithms are still the property university? 

Apache will not claim these - although citing our project would sure be nice 
if the publication relies on Mahout.

As Ted already said it depends on the publisher of your paper whether the 
copyright will remain yours after publication though.


> I am new in the Open-Source world as well as to the publication world: it's
> very exiting! I wanted only to clarify everything before very hopefully
> starting. 

To add a little experience from German universities: As far as I know they are 
pretty open to the idea of publishing code under open source licenses 
although students get support if they want to turn their research into a 
business model. You should certainly speak to your university concerning your 
plan to contribute your software to Mahout as well as your intention to take 
part in Google summer of code. I would not expect any problems, but you never 
know.


> However, I wanted only to know if the use of LUCENE is required, suggested
> or neither?

Well, several Mahout people have a Lucene background and are interested in 
text mining. Of course this does not imply that we reject any patches that 
are not lucene centric ;)

Isabel


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