Hi Barry, Thanks. I don't plan to modify Moses, just use them to create translations. I'll speak to others whether they make modification.
Best regards, Jelita On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Barry Haddow <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Jelita > > It's hard to say from the description below whether the modifications > would change Moses source code. You'd need to speak to the people that made > the modifications. > > Also, the LGPL only matters if you distribute your modified Moses. If you > just use Moses to create translations, then the LGPL doesn't apply. > > As Tom says though, you'd be safer to speak to an IP lawyer on these > matters, > > cheers - Barry > > cheers - Barry > > > On 07/11/12 03:41, Jelita Asian wrote: > >> Hi Barry, >> >> Thanks. I looked at the link and LGPL but still wasn't too sure. >> >> Addtional features: >> -Speed up Moses by pruning the translation tree. Is this act considered >> as changing Moses source code? I think it's more about changing the output >> tree if Moses but I'm not sure so I have to ask. Sorry, I'm a bit vague >> because I'm not the one doing programming for this. >> -Stemming untranslated words, not translating proper nouns, language >> identification. I think these features don't change Moses code so shall be >> fine. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Jelita >> >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Barry Haddow >> <[email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected].**ac.uk <[email protected]>>> wrote: >> >> Hi Jelita >> >> Check the Moses faq on this topic, and the link into the LGPL >> documentation >> http://www.statmt.org/moses/? n=Moses.FAQ#ntoc18 >> >> <http://www.statmt.org/moses/?**n=Moses.FAQ#ntoc18<http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.FAQ#ntoc18> >> > >> >> It really depends what you mean by "an additional feature", and >> whether you are distributing the software. >> >> cheers - Barry >> >> >> On 06/11/12 08:11, Jelita Asian wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have seen the link of http://comments.gmane.org/ >> gmane.comp.nlp.moses.user/974 >> >> <http://comments.gmane.org/**gmane.comp.nlp.moses.user/974<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.nlp.moses.user/974> >> > >> regarding proprietary software. >> >> I'm still not too sure about the permission of LGPL. I plan to >> train an English and Indonesian parallel corpus using Moses. >> We will add an additional feature to a commercial product. The >> training is done using Moses with the language modelling such >> as IRSTLM. I'm not sure whether I should distribute my code >> which will defeat the purpose of a commercial product. Do I >> need to get permission for each aspect of LGPL included in the >> code? I don't plan to change the GPL/LGPL part of the code. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Jelita >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________ _________________ >> Moses-support mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://mailman.mit.edu/ mailman/listinfo/moses-support >> >> >> <http://mailman.mit.edu/**mailman/listinfo/moses-support<http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support> >> **> >> >> >> >> -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >> >> >> > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > >
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