Support for users of CCG software closed 7-27-20

["Sammons, Mark" <mssammon AT illinois.edu>]

Hi, Richard. 

From Stanford's parser page 
(http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml):

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Licensing

The parser code is dual licensed (in a similar manner to MySQL, etc.). Open 
source licensing is under the full GPL, which allows many free uses. For 
distributors of proprietary software, commercial licensing is available. 
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So we using the Stanford software with this understanding.  

Incidentally, for the lemmatizer, the dependency on Stanford is incidental 
(it was purely to allow evaluation/comparison).  

Regarding our source code: the source code clauses are in the standard 
license and it's true we are making no effort to hide the source.  We will 
consult the appropriate University of Illinois offices and see about 
changing/omitting that wording. 

Best regards,

Mark
________________________________________
From: Richard Eckart de Castilho 
[richard.eckart AT gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 8:08 AM
To: Sammons, Mark
Cc: 
illinois-ml-nlp-users AT lists.cs.illinois.edu
Subject: Re: [[Illinois-ml-nlp-users] ] License of the Illinois NLP software 
packages

Thanks Mark! I understand this is an academic license with the permission to 
redistribute and without any copyleft provisions.

However, I noted that some of the software packages like the lemmatizer and 
NLP pipeline have dependencies on Stanford CoreNLP. Since CoreNLP is licensed 
under the full GPL, wouldn't that license carry over to your packages as well 
due to it's copyleft character?

For curiosity: the license includes a clause about not making the source code 
available, but you make your code available yourself. In how far does that 
clause then apply?

The export clause also seems to clash with the code being publicly available 
on Github.

Best,

-- Richard

> On 03.05.2016, at 14:59, Sammons, Mark 
> <mssammon AT illinois.edu>
>  wrote:
>
> Hi, Richard.
>
> The Cognitive Computation Group's software is released under an academic 
> use license. You can find the license here:
>
> https://github.com/IllinoisCogComp/illinois-cogcomp-nlp/blob/master/LICENSE
>
> and in the individual packages available from our web site.  Thank you for 
> pointing out the other places we should display this information.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mark
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Richard Eckart de Castilho 
> [richard.eckart AT gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 6:58 AM
> To: 
> illinois-ml-nlp-users AT lists.cs.illinois.edu
> Subject: [[Illinois-ml-nlp-users] ] License of the Illinois NLP software 
> packages
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was looking for information under which licenses the different Illinois 
> NLP software packages (or better even the individual Maven JARs) are 
> distributed. Unfortunately, I was unable to find such information. I found 
> nothing on the website and also no license information in the pom.xml files 
> or within the JARs themselves.
>
> Can you tell me under which license(s) the Illinois software packages are 
> released?
>
> Best,
>
> -- Richard
>