From 8b5a04d68c9453d89393cf905988d92fb22243aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steffen Schneider Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 22:25:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Change license to Apache 2.0 (#117) --- LICENSE.md | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NOTICE.yml | 20 +++-- README.md | 3 +- docs/source/index.rst | 7 +- 4 files changed, 219 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md index 97234104..1925602a 100644 --- a/LICENSE.md +++ b/LICENSE.md @@ -1,3 +1,201 @@ +# CEBRA License + +## Versioning Notice + +- Versions < 0.1.0 have "no license", see https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/. +- Versions 0.1.0 to 0.3.1 are covered under the Non-Commercial License Agreement appended below. +- Versions 0.4.0 - present are covered under the Apache-2.0 license appended below. + +Please note EPFL has filed a patent titled "Dimensionality reduction of time-series data, and +systems and devices that use the resultant embeddings" (https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2023143843A1) +so if this does not work for your non-academic use case, please contact the TTO Office at EPFL. + +## Version 0.4.0+ are covered under the following license + +Copyright (2023-present) Mackenzie W. 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If this license is not appropriate for your application, please contact Prof. Mackenzie W. Mathis (mackenzie@post.harvard.edu) for a commercial use license. +- Since version 0.4.0, CEBRA is open source software under an Apache 2.0 license. +- Prior versions 0.1.0 to 0.3.1 were released for academic use only (please read the license file). diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst index 73979414..c8231746 100644 --- a/docs/source/index.rst +++ b/docs/source/index.rst @@ -54,9 +54,10 @@ possibility to compute CEBRA embeddings on DeepLabCut_ outputs directly. Licensing --------- -© All rights reserved. ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Laboratory of Prof. Mackenzie W. Mathis (UPMWMATHIS) and original authors: Steffen Schneider, Jin H Lee, Mackenzie W Mathis. 2023. -It is made available for non-commercial research use only. 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