Excellent. Thanks for following through with this Tim! Steve
On Mar 29, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Tim Miller <timothy.mil...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote: > I emailed the author of svmlight and he was very clear that our usage is > acceptable: > > Hi Tim, > > Using the models trained with my software in the way you describe is fine > with me for the application you describe. Feel free to include the trained > models in the distribution under any license you like... > > Cheers > Thorsten > > Tim > > On 03/26/2013 10:04 AM, Tim Miller wrote: >> We are using a software package called svmlight and a derivative >> called svmlight-tk to train machine learning models in research. If >> the results are good we would like to include the models in cTAKES. We >> thought we should consult legal because this software uses a custom >> license not covered by FAQs, and we just want to be on the safe side. >> The full text of the license is attached. >> (Just in case the attachment doesn't work I was able to find it on the >> web here: http://morphix-nlp.berlios.de/manual/node48.html but not at >> the svmlight webpage.) >> >> To be clear, we do not want to redistribute the svmlight or >> svmlight-tk source or binaries or even use maven to download them. >> There is code in clearTK which can read these models and process new >> data and is license compatible. We are only talking about distributing >> models trained with the svmlight and svmlight-tk packages. >> >> Thanks, >> >
