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Ask HN: How do you license a neural network as free software?
4 points by frabcus on Nov 25, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I'm looking for how to use deep learning inside some open source software.

Has anyone done any work on the licensing of a trained network?

A network is effectively a piece of software, however it is based on both data and the training software. Of course, the training software can use any open source license.

Does the data it is based on need to have any particular kind of license or permission given?

And what license does the combined "binary" (it's effectively generated code) of the neural network itself have?

Are there any projects already doing this kind of licensing that do it well?



I don't know if there are any neural networks in NLTK at this time, but it does contain pre-trained machine learning models. Also look at the Stanford Parser as something which is licensed and frequently used.


Wikidata, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page, licenses under CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) which is designed to afford the work a status similar to being in the public domain. The reason for the license is that not all legal jurisdictions have a public domain copyright status.




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