Thanks for clarify this, Matt. This information is very important for us that 
work with products derived from or related to nupic.

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> On 15/05/2015, at 17:31, 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
>> 
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