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jluttine / tikz-bayesnet

TikZ library for drawing Bayesian networks, graphical models and (directed) factor graphs in LaTeX.
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Laura Dietz's 2010 doc on directed factor graphs #6

Closed brendano closed 8 years ago

brendano commented 8 years ago

The URL for Laura's old academic homepage doesn't work, so here's a copy of the PDF to live in the repository.

jluttine commented 8 years ago

Great idea! But do you know about the license of the paper or about permissions to redistribute? That is, is it allowed to distribute the paper via this repo?

brendano commented 8 years ago

Good question. Yes, I got permission from Laura to post it here.

jluttine commented 8 years ago

That's great. So apparently Laura owns the copyright and not some publisher, right? It'd be great if the permission from the copyright holders (Laura?) would be somewhere in written format. For instance, as a comment here if that's convenient.

To make things simpler, I'd also like to change the GPL license to MIT, which is more permissive. I need an agreement from Laura for that too. Again, for instance, a comment on this thread would be ok.

But of course, emails are ok too.

I'm not an expert on licenses so if someone has better ideas how to handle all this, I'm open for suggestions. :yum:

brendano commented 8 years ago

I think MIT and GPL licenses only apply to code. Are you talking about code? (I don't know anything about this codebase.)

Let's only talk about documentation for now. Laura retains copyright on that document so I'll ask her to comment here approving a copy to be in this repository.

laura-dietz commented 8 years ago

It is a tech report -- no publisher has their fingers on it if that's your concern.

Jaakko, you know my stance on licenses. As open as possible. I assume for a document a creative common attribution would be good.

I am switching affiliations (again), I hope to soon have a more permanent web presence at which point I will also put the tech report back online.

jluttine commented 8 years ago

Thanks Laura! :+1:

I'll merge this pull request and at the same time clarify the licenses, some day soon. I think the MIT license works also for the tech report because the license says: "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files ...". This tech report falls into that category, I'd say. Thus, it'd keep things simpler if there's just MIT for everything instead of different licenses for different files. Phew, how did this become so complicated.. :smile: Anyway, big thanks to both of you! :yum:

jluttine commented 8 years ago

Done. Thanks!