Re: FLOSS-friendly non-profit foundations in the AI/DL/ML space?
Hi Paul,
thanks for the link etc, I include Mario Behling from OpnTec and
FOSSASIA here, that could also be a good place.
> As part of packaging gensim for Debian I discovered that one of its
> dependencies, visdom, is under a non-free license (CC-BY-NC-4.0).
> Facebook is not willing to relicense it themselves, but is willing to
> transfer it to another organisation and give them permission to
> relicense it. Since visdom is mainly used in the ML/DL community, it
> makes sense to transfer it to a FLOSS-friendly organisation in the
> AI/DL/ML space, so I am wondering if any of those exist yet? Failing
> that I was thinking either the Python Software Foundation (since it is
> written in Python) or Software Freedom Conservancy (who are the org for
> a diverse range of projects from Godot to Git).
>
> https://github.com/facebookresearch/visdom/issues/759#issuecomment-694844975
> https://github.com/facebookresearch/visdom/issues/753
> https://github.com/facebookresearch/visdom/issues/751
> https://www.python.org/psf/
> https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
Best
Norbert
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