we can't change the license, or dual license it, without the agreement of everyone who's contributed to Moses. Too much work
Hieu Hoang http://moses-smt.org/ On 10 April 2018 at 15:47, liling tan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Moses Dev, > > NLTK has a Python port of the word tokenizer in Moses. The tokenizer works > well in Python and create a good synergy to bridge Python users to the code > that Moses developers have spent years to hone. > > But it seemed to have hit a wall with some licensing issues. > https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2000 > > General port of LGPL code is considered derivative and is incompatible > with Apache or MIT license. I understand that LGPL keeps derivative from > being proprietary but it's a little less permissive than non-copyleft > license like Apache and MIT licenses. > > Note that this licensing issue might also affect Marian which is MIT > license and also incompatible with LGPL so although technically users can > chain the code from different libraries, but Marian couldn't have any > dependencies on the Moses components. (But we know do know that none of our > models built with Marian would work without the Moses tokenizer which is in > LGPL). > > Would there be a possibility to dual license the Moses repository with > LGPL and Apache/BSD/MIT license. I'm not sure whether it's allowed to have > dual licenses with LGPL and Apache/BSD/MIT license though. Might have to > check with some proper legal personnel though. > > If dual license is not possible would it be possible relicense the code > under BSD/Apache/MIT license? That way it's more permissive for derivatiive > work? > > I think the last scenario is for NLTK to drop the Python port of Moses > code entirely from Apache license repository but I think that'll remove the > synergy between various OSS. > > Hope to hear from Moses devs soon! > > Regards, > Liling > > > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > >
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