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sancha / jrae

I re-implemented a semi-supervised recursive autoencoder in java. I think it is a pretty nice technique. Check it out! Or fork it
http://www.socher.org/index.php/Main/Semi-SupervisedRecursiveAutoencodersForPredictingSentimentDistributions
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Closed robertyates closed 11 years ago

robertyates commented 11 years ago

This looks really good, but unfortunately I need to understand the license before doing anything with it. Any chance you'd release this with an Apache2 license? http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

sancha commented 11 years ago

Sorry, I had added the license to the stable branch. Its released in GPL2. Is that sufficient?

robertyates commented 11 years ago

Thanks for the quick answer. Unfortunately GPL2 is not very business friendly and while I had no intention of doing anything commercial with it I can't download it and play with it as my employer worries about contamination issues and basically forbids me from downloading it :(. BSD, MIT and Apache Licenses don't have the "viral" aspect to them which makes them more business friendly but you may well be wanting to achieve exactly what GPL2 is designed to do.

sancha commented 11 years ago

I want to release it in the most useful manner possible. I am using stanford corenlp, which I think is in GPL2, and that is pretty much the only reason I released it in GPL2. Let me research this a bit further and what I can do.

robertyates commented 11 years ago

thanks, appreciate it

sancha commented 11 years ago

I looked into the details, you are right. I am stuck with GPL2 as I am using the NLP toolkit's optimization tool. If you know of any other java implementations of quasi newton methods under more liberal licenses, I could make a fork with that.

robertyates commented 11 years ago

Thanks for looking into this. I did a bit of googling and found mallet http://mallet.cs.umass.edu which, I think, has the implementation that you need http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/optimization.php.

It's distributed under the common public license http://opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php which apache indicates can be included in apache licensed software http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b

Thoughts? Is that an easy switch?

sancha commented 11 years ago

Cool, the interface looks similar, I will try making a fork later today. There might also be some containers I am using that relies on the toolkit but that should not pose much trouble.

sancha commented 11 years ago

I am afraid its just too tightly coupled to the package for a fork :(

robertyates commented 11 years ago

sorry, xmas got in the way. That's unfortunate, but thanks for considering it.