{
  "id": 21399,
  "title": "Can I use spark ?",
  "url": "/competitions/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/discussion/21399",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-06-03T01:05:51.050Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 706,
  "content": "<p>I wonder to know whether it is OK to use Spark (Scala api) for this competition?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "122315",
      "postDate": "06/03/2016 01:05:51",
      "content": "<p>I wonder to know whether it is OK to use Spark (Scala api) for this competition?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I wonder to know whether it is OK to use Spark (Scala api) for this competition?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "122929",
      "postDate": "06/08/2016 14:29:40",
      "content": "<p>I think so.</p>\n\n<p>Under <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/rules\">rules</a>, it says,</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>A Submission will be ineligible to win a prize if it was developed\n  using code containing or depending on software licensed under an open\n  source license:</p>\n  \n  <ul>\n  <li><em>other than</em> an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see &lt;<a href=\"http://opensource.org/\">http://opensource.org/</a>&gt;)\n  or</li>\n  <li>an open source license that prohibits commercial use.</li>\n  </ul>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Spark <a href=\"https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/LICENSE\">uses</a> Apache license version 2.0, which is indeed an <a href=\"https://opensource.org/licenses\">OSI license</a>.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I think so.\r\n\r\nUnder [rules](https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/rules), it says,\r\n\r\n> A Submission will be ineligible to win a prize if it was developed\r\n> using code containing or depending on software licensed under an open\r\n> source license:\r\n> \r\n> * *other than* an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see <<http://opensource.org/>>)\r\n> or\r\n> * an open source license that prohibits commercial use.\r\n\r\nSpark [uses](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/LICENSE) Apache license version 2.0, which is indeed an [OSI license](https://opensource.org/licenses).",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 122929,
      "author_name": "rpmcruz",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/08/2016 14:29:40",
      "content": "<p>I think so.</p>\n\n<p>Under <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/rules\">rules</a>, it says,</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>A Submission will be ineligible to win a prize if it was developed\n  using code containing or depending on software licensed under an open\n  source license:</p>\n  \n  <ul>\n  <li><em>other than</em> an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see &lt;<a href=\"http://opensource.org/\">http://opensource.org/</a>&gt;)\n  or</li>\n  <li>an open source license that prohibits commercial use.</li>\n  </ul>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Spark <a href=\"https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/LICENSE\">uses</a> Apache license version 2.0, which is indeed an <a href=\"https://opensource.org/licenses\">OSI license</a>.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "122315": "I wonder to know whether it is OK to use Spark (Scala api) for this competition?",
    "122929": "I think so.\r\n\r\nUnder [rules](https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/rules), it says,\r\n\r\n> A Submission will be ineligible to win a prize if it was developed\r\n> using code containing or depending on software licensed under an open\r\n> source license:\r\n> \r\n> * *other than* an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see <<http://opensource.org/>>)\r\n> or\r\n> * an open source license that prohibits commercial use.\r\n\r\nSpark [uses](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/LICENSE) Apache license version 2.0, which is indeed an [OSI license](https://opensource.org/licenses)."
  },
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}