[mlpack] Request for comments: change of license to MPL

Ryan Curtin gth671b at mail.gatech.edu
Wed Dec 24 15:40:28 EST 2014


On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 08:07:57AM -0500, Ryan Curtin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:31:46PM +0100, Marcus Edel wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Just to be clear we are talking about to migrate to BSD and not to MPL as
> > pointed out in the mail subject. I think basically switching to a BSD license is
> > a crucial step to make mlpack easier to deploy in a wide range of scenarios.
> 
> Crap, you are right.  Thanks for pointing out my error.  I thought about
> the MPL for a while but I concluded that BSD is a better choice for
> simplicity's sake.

Well, it's been a week and nobody has commented, so I will assume nobody
has a problem with this.  I will begin to contact contributors and get
their approval, and I expect to be able to relicense in about a month.

-- 
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ryan at ratml.org | Ocean."  - Bobby



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