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Why would they need/want to add the Disclaimer? ("This software is published for academic and non-commercial use only.") By fear of some patent violation? Or do
by akavel 9y ago
Why would they need/want to add the Disclaimer? ("This software is published for academic and non-commercial use only.") By fear of some patent violation? Or do they plan for commercial use (e.g. licensing to Photoshop) and this way they keep the license non-OSS (a.k.a. the "share source" euphemism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source)? Is it some kind of a well known legalese in academic circles?
- failedartifact 9y agoIs the disclaimer clearly just saying commercial use is prohibited?
- eXpl0it3r 9y agoMaybe they simply don't have the rights to the whole source code, but were allowed to make it public if they added that disclaimer. Usually the university will have the ownership of code produced in academia and if you find a commercial model based on their research code, they most likely want some money from that.
- adrianN 9y agoMaybe formally their institute owns all IP they produce and they can't make it available unless it's for academic use?
- samfriedman 9y agoSeeing as two of the authors are from Adobe Research, I'd imagine this IP will be used for a Photoshop filter in the future.
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- johndough 9y agoThey use VGG-19 pretrained weights which are derived from ImageNet which consists of mostly copyrighted images. It is currently untested whether this is a legal problem or not.
- akavel 9y agoWow, ok, this is seriously insightful and mindblowing for me! I'd never think of such a danger vector, but with your hint I can now totally understand the reason for caution. However painful it feels. Thanks for the reply! :)