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uber-archive / plato-research-dialogue-system

This is the Plato Research Dialogue System, a flexible platform for developing conversational AI agents.
Apache License 2.0
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Why not an MIT, Apache, or other common license? #4

Closed arschles closed 5 years ago

arschles commented 5 years ago

The license for this project is not familiar to me. I fully respect the choice to use whatever license you choose, but I was wondering if there's a reason this repository (and others in the uber-research GH organization) don't use one of the more common OSS licenses?

bhenhsi commented 5 years ago

Hi @arschles, Plato source code is shared under a non-commercial license for research purposes only. Most of the research projects under uber-research are under the same non-commercial license. We constantly assess projects under uber-research and relicense them under open source license whenever possible. E.g. we recently relicensed POET under Apache 2.0 https://github.com/uber-research/poet

Let me know if you have future questions.

arschles commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the explanation @briankhsieh. Do you initially release as non-commercial because you have non-commercial licensed dependencies, or unvetted licensed software that you depend on?