Still the same problem - everyone owns Moses so you need everyone's permission, not just mine. So no
Hieu Hoang http://moses-smt.org/ On 10 April 2018 at 17:13, liling tan <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand. > > Could we have permission that it's okay to derive work from Moses with > respect to the (de-)tokenizer and possibly other scripts under an > MIT/Apache tool? > > Legally it's a restriction but I think for what's it worth, having mutual > agreement between the OSS is sufficient to still keep any port of LGPL work > until someone starts to enforce legal actions and I think it's safe to back > off to taking down these functionalities in the Apache/MIT code. > > Regards, > Liling > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:09 AM, Hieu Hoang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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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