On 07/01/2015 10:27 AM, Fred Mailhot wrote: > 1) The upshot seems to be that it's a defensive patent, and in any > case the code was released under Apache 2.0, so it's fine to use. > https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/ > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/word2vec-toolkit/1hID9F74_Ho > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/word2vec-toolkit/1hID9F74_Ho> > > 2) The gensim implementation predates the patenting > Patents and code licenses are completely independent and open source implementations don't invalidate patents. The Apache license grants patents iirc, so that is a bit different (I'm not certain about the details). If it was BSD licensed, they could definitely still sue you for using it.
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