On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 01:38:44AM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > > And this question is about whether the addition of the code at > > https://github.com/WeChatCV/opencv_3rdparty to opencv is okay from a > > licensing perspective? And there is no license info in those files. > Not additional code but additional binaries which "there is no license > info in those files" neither if these models have any kind of patent . My intuition is that this is "content" under Fedora policies [1] although I can also see an argument that trained AI models are actually more like compiled code. I don't think we have a good handle on this as it is an emerging field. If it _is_ "content", it would need to be under one of these licenses: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/#_allowed_content_licenses or another license which may have the following exceptions to our normal rules for free and open source: * The license may restrict or prohibit modification * The license may say that it does not cover patents or grant any patent licenses I guess one could make the argument that these models are somehow like "firmware", but I'm very skeptical about that. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-approval/#_allowed_for_firmware All of that stuff is kind of irrelevant if there is *no* license, though. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
