I've been chatting with Donna about this topic over email. We are glad there is interest, but she is currently traveling. When she gets back, we will put together some additional information about commercial licenses, the "startup licensing package", and other answers to questions you all have. Please feel free to continue asking questions, but Donna will need to address some of them when she is back from travel. In the meantime, I'll answer the ones I can an compile the rest for us to address soon. --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
