Re: [scikit-learn] Commercial use of ML algorithms and scikit-learn

2017-10-03 Thread Andreas Mueller
Licensing and patents are orthogonal. They are pretty much unrelated. In terms of the license, you can do with the code whatever you like. If any of the algorithms were (are?) patented, independent of the implementation, you would have to pay a license fee to use it - no matter if you use a comm

Re: [scikit-learn] Commercial use of ML algorithms and scikit-learn

2017-09-30 Thread Sebastian Raschka
Hi, Paul, I think there should be no issue with that as scikit-learn is distributed under a BSD v3 license as long as you uphold the terms of that license. It's a bit tricky to find that license note as it's not called "LICENSE" in the GitHub repo like it is usually done for open source project

[scikit-learn] Commercial use of ML algorithms and scikit-learn

2017-09-30 Thread Paul Smith
Dear Scikit-learn users: My name is Paul and I am working on a large electronics company. Sorry that I cannot reveal the name of company. My boss asked me to improve our business using ML algorithms. However I recently found many of ML algorithms are patented. Are there any legal problems if I u