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Code for using and evaluating SpanBERT.
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Licence - Why not Apache 2.0 like Google? #28

Open ai-nikolai opened 4 years ago

ai-nikolai commented 4 years ago

Hey facebook-research team,

Why are you not releasing this work under the Apache 2.0 licence like google? That would be much more of a contribution to the public.

Thanks.

ai-nikolai commented 4 years ago

On another note. It is really cool work - so thanks for that ;)

sam-writer commented 4 years ago

Hey, I don't work for FAIR, but in the past what I have seen them do: release under this restrictive license, then if the project gets enough attention, transition to BSD/Apache2/MIT.

FWIW, some FB leadership has said that they don't enforce the licenses (source: Yann LeCun says this in this interview).

ai-nikolai commented 4 years ago

Hey,

Thanks @sam-qordoba for the analysis. Hopefully they will start doing BSD/MIT/Apache2 (or even GPL ;) ) from the beginning in the future.

--> Re: leadership, one thing is saying it, other thing is not doing it.

see-- commented 4 years ago

@mandarjoshi90 @danqi Could you share why this license was used? huggingface also used Apache2: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/LICENSE

mandarjoshi90 commented 4 years ago

To my limited knowledge, using this license is standard practice at FAIR. I don't work at FAIR anymore, so take that with a pinch of salt.

lu161513 commented 4 years ago

To my limited knowledge, using this license is standard practice at FAIR. I don't work at FAIR anymore, so take that with a pinch of salt.

@mandarjoshi90

Thank you for your cool work. Could you transfer this CC-BY-NC-SA license to Apache2.0 or BSD or MIT? I want to use spanbert instead of Bert, but the company's scan tool configuration(like black duck) does not allow this kind of license....