license on top of files? about lbjava

[mssammon]

@danyaljj , where did you find this license text? This doesn't seem to be sufficiently clear about commercial use. Take a look at the text of the license file that appears for e.g. nlp pipeline on our web site, which contains these paragraphs:

No license is granted herein that would permit Licensee to incorporate the Software into a commercial product, or to otherwise commercially exploit the Software. Should Licensee wish to make commercial use of the Software, Licensee should contact the University, c/o the Office of Technology Management ("OTM") to negotiate an appropriate license for such commercial use. To contact the OTM: [email protected]; telephone: [phone]; fax: [phone].
THE UNIVERSITY GIVES NO WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, FOR THE SOFTWARE AND/OR ASSOCIATED MATERIALS PROVIDED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY AND WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ANY WARRANTY AGAINST INFRINGEMENT OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.

Licensee understands the Software is proprietary to the University. Licensee will take all reasonable steps to insure that the source code is protected and secured from unauthorized disclosure, use, or release and will treat it with at least the same level of care as Licensee would use to protect and secure its own proprietary computer programs and/or information, but using no less than reasonable care.

[danyaljj]

There is a LICENSE file in the root folder of the project which contains the complete Academic License.

The snippet I have included here I found on top of files in SL.

[mssammon]

OK -- presumably we'll have to change the SL license too. The snippet is more general than the actual A.U. license, so needs to change to reflect that. Perhaps:

/*******************************************************************************
 * This software is released under the University of Illinois/Research 
 *  and Academic Use License (see doc/LICENSE.txt for details). 
 * Copyright (c) 2016
 *
 * Developed by:
 * The Cognitive Computations Group
 * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 * http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/
 *     
 *******************************************************************************/

[danr-ccg]

Yes, this piece of text seems good to me; plus a pointer to the U of I Academic License.
Thanks,
Dan

From: Mark Sammons [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 3:20 PM
To: IllinoisCogComp/lbjava
Subject: Re: [lbjava] license on top of files? (#31)

@danyaljjhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_danyaljj&d=BQMCaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=EoEIPOcXriNKNTRQxPa5uv7hPypxUE6tE_RlGOluh-c&m=BPUktJZPoDN5KVM3e9eYw68kp-aMuX-2IvV-oZe28Lw&s=q6YVGTkUaPMqp7-Qm3Ng8ZVdJ3UhVMmYUnjBFHgllPE&e= , where did you find this license text? This doesn't seem to be sufficiently clear about commercial use. Take a look at the text of the license file that appears for e.g. nlp pipeline on our web site, which contains these paragraphs:

No license is granted herein that would permit Licensee to incorporate the Software into a commercial product, or to otherwise commercially exploit the Software. Should Licensee wish to make commercial use of the Software, Licensee should contact the University, c/o the Office of Technology Management ("OTM") to negotiate an appropriate license for such commercial use. To contact the OTM: [email protected]:[email protected]; telephone: [phone]; fax: [phone].
THE UNIVERSITY GIVES NO WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, FOR THE SOFTWARE AND/OR ASSOCIATED MATERIALS PROVIDED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY AND WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ANY WARRANTY AGAINST INFRINGEMENT OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.

Licensee understands the Software is proprietary to the University. Licensee will take all reasonable steps to insure that the source code is protected and secured from unauthorized disclosure, use, or release and will treat it with at least the same level of care as Licensee would use to protect and secure its own proprietary computer programs and/or information, but using no less than reasonable care.

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