And to clarify why we chose GPLv3, it's in large part because of the strong patent protection it provides for us and the community. See http://numenta.org/blog/2013/07/01/patent-position.html for details. --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Fergal Byrne <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, I should have said that. There are a number of open source licences, > which have varying degrees of Richard Stallman GNU stringency about them. > GPL v3 is his latest and strongest version, which imposes a kind of viral > open-sourceness. This often doesn't work out cleanly in a mixed OSS and > corporate IP world. > > As Matt says, if you go all-out GPL v3 on your work, you are good. If not, > you may need to consult an expert in OSS IP or talk to Numenta. > > > > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Fergal Byrne >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > make it open source and Numenta will embrace that >> >> I know I keep saying this, but it is important: make it open source >> under GPLv3. If you create an open source application that depends >> upon NuPIC to run, it must be GPLv3. >> >> --------- >> Matt Taylor >> OS Community Flag-Bearer >> Numenta >> > > > > -- > > Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT > > http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology > http://ie.linkedin.com/in/fergbyrne/ - https://github.com/fergalbyrne > > Founder of Clortex: HTM in Clojure - > https://github.com/nupic-community/clortex > > Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC > Read for free or buy the book at https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines > > Speaking on Clortex and HTM/CLA at euroClojure Krakow, June 2014: > http://euroclojure.com/2014/ > and at LambdaJam Chicago, July 2014: http://www.lambdajam.com > > e:[email protected] t:+353 83 4214179 > Join the quest for Machine Intelligence at http://numenta.org > Formerly of Adnet [email protected] http://www.adnet.ie
