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Basic statistics for Julia
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Decide on an opensource license #41

Closed staticfloat closed 10 years ago

staticfloat commented 10 years ago

It would be nice to get this released under an opensource license. :)

johnmyleswhite commented 10 years ago

We should do a quick code review, but I think everything here can be released MIT. It's only Distributions that has a GPL dependency to my knowledge.

lindahua commented 10 years ago

I went over all codes completely when working on the v0.3 version. All implementations are pretty standard following textbook.

Except the kernel density estimation part. John, I remember you wrote this part originally. So you may see whether that part can be released MIT.

I myself confirm that all my contributions here are released with MIT license.

Shall we ping every contributor to ask for their confirmations?

johnmyleswhite commented 10 years ago

I should check that my translation of the KDE code from an old algorithms paper can fall under the MIT license.

Pinging other contributors would be a good idea.

dmbates commented 10 years ago

My code can be MIT licensed.

kmsquire commented 10 years ago

Here are the current author contributions, by lines

   3431 author Dahua Lin
    430 author Simon Byrne
    151 author Andreas Noack Jensen
     92 author Douglas Bates
     58 author John Myles White
      8 author Alexander Fabisch
      5 author Simon Kornblith
      1 author theodore # it's a blank line, probably not copywritable... ;-)
      1 author Mike Innes
      1 author Iain Dunning

I'm assuming the one-line changes probably don't matter, but just in case, pinging:

@simonbyrne, @andreasnoackjensen, @IainNZ, @one-more-minute, @AlexanderFabisch, @simonster

andreasnoack commented 10 years ago

No problem.

simonster commented 10 years ago

I license my contributions under the MIT license

IainNZ commented 10 years ago

I wonder what I changed! MIT

kmsquire commented 10 years ago

@AlexanderFabisch's contributions are end statements and blank lines at this point, although they could have been more substantial at one point, so I think that's probably sufficient to create the license file.

kmsquire commented 10 years ago

closed by 5e63027

AlexanderFabisch commented 10 years ago

I have written the original version of the indicator functions. These have been rewritten completely by @lindahua . I don't have any problems with the license you choose.