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  "id": 223459,
  "title": "Question about license requirement",
  "url": "/competitions/bms-molecular-translation/discussion/223459",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-03-03T23:29:18.037780800Z",
  "votes": 4,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>A huge thanks to the competition organizers, this is a really exciting competition for me. I just had a question regarding the licencing requirement.</p>\n<p>The rules seem pretty ambiguous. \"Non-Exclusive License\" could mean pretty much any open source licence, even ones which prohibit commercial use. I'm assuming licenses like MIT and BSD are okay but what about GPL-3.0? Could you please clarify this point?</p>\n<p>Thank you in advance<br>\ntagging <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/jakealbrecht1337\" target=\"_blank\">@jakealbrecht1337</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/inversion\" target=\"_blank\">@inversion</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/addisonhoward\" target=\"_blank\">@addisonhoward</a> </p>",
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      "postDate": "03/03/2021 23:29:18",
      "content": "<p>A huge thanks to the competition organizers, this is a really exciting competition for me. I just had a question regarding the licencing requirement.</p>\n<p>The rules seem pretty ambiguous. \"Non-Exclusive License\" could mean pretty much any open source licence, even ones which prohibit commercial use. I'm assuming licenses like MIT and BSD are okay but what about GPL-3.0? Could you please clarify this point?</p>\n<p>Thank you in advance<br>\ntagging <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/jakealbrecht1337\" target=\"_blank\">@jakealbrecht1337</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/inversion\" target=\"_blank\">@inversion</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/addisonhoward\" target=\"_blank\">@addisonhoward</a> </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "A huge thanks to the competition organizers, this is a really exciting competition for me. I just had a question regarding the licencing requirement.\n\nThe rules seem pretty ambiguous. \"Non-Exclusive License\" could mean pretty much any open source licence, even ones which prohibit commercial use. I'm assuming licenses like MIT and BSD are okay but what about GPL-3.0? Could you please clarify this point?\n\nThank you in advance\ntagging @jakealbrecht1337 @inversion @addisonhoward",
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      "id": "1225817",
      "postDate": "03/04/2021 01:25:03",
      "content": "<p>Hey Matthew,</p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and Kaggle does not provide legal advice.</strong></p>\n<p>The rules state for a non-exclusive license:</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>You hereby grant and will grant to Competition Sponsor and its designees a worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale and import your winning Submission and the source code used to generate the Submission, in any media now known or developed in the future, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without further approval by or payment to you. To the extent your Submission makes use of generally commercially available software not owned by you that you used to generate your Submission, but that can be procured by the Competition Sponsor without undue expense, you do not grant the license in the preceding sentence to that software.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This is commonly understood to mean that both you and the Sponsor will have a full and complete license to do whatever you should wish with the winning model. </p>\n<p>Please note that there are other rules regarding data used in the model and appropriate eligibility given your employment that you should ensure are noted as well.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hey Matthew,\n\n**Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and Kaggle does not provide legal advice.**\n\nThe rules state for a non-exclusive license:\n\n> You hereby grant and will grant to Competition Sponsor and its designees a worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale and import your winning Submission and the source code used to generate the Submission, in any media now known or developed in the future, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without further approval by or payment to you. To the extent your Submission makes use of generally commercially available software not owned by you that you used to generate your Submission, but that can be procured by the Competition Sponsor without undue expense, you do not grant the license in the preceding sentence to that software.\n\nThis is commonly understood to mean that both you and the Sponsor will have a full and complete license to do whatever you should wish with the winning model. \n\nPlease note that there are other rules regarding data used in the model and appropriate eligibility given your employment that you should ensure are noted as well.",
      "votes": null
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      "id": 1225817,
      "author_name": "addisonhoward",
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      "post_date": "03/04/2021 01:25:03",
      "content": "<p>Hey Matthew,</p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and Kaggle does not provide legal advice.</strong></p>\n<p>The rules state for a non-exclusive license:</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>You hereby grant and will grant to Competition Sponsor and its designees a worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale and import your winning Submission and the source code used to generate the Submission, in any media now known or developed in the future, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without further approval by or payment to you. To the extent your Submission makes use of generally commercially available software not owned by you that you used to generate your Submission, but that can be procured by the Competition Sponsor without undue expense, you do not grant the license in the preceding sentence to that software.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This is commonly understood to mean that both you and the Sponsor will have a full and complete license to do whatever you should wish with the winning model. </p>\n<p>Please note that there are other rules regarding data used in the model and appropriate eligibility given your employment that you should ensure are noted as well.</p>",
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    "1225782": "A huge thanks to the competition organizers, this is a really exciting competition for me. I just had a question regarding the licencing requirement.\n\nThe rules seem pretty ambiguous. \"Non-Exclusive License\" could mean pretty much any open source licence, even ones which prohibit commercial use. I'm assuming licenses like MIT and BSD are okay but what about GPL-3.0? Could you please clarify this point?\n\nThank you in advance\ntagging @jakealbrecht1337 @inversion @addisonhoward",
    "1225817": "Hey Matthew,\n\n**Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and Kaggle does not provide legal advice.**\n\nThe rules state for a non-exclusive license:\n\n> You hereby grant and will grant to Competition Sponsor and its designees a worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale and import your winning Submission and the source code used to generate the Submission, in any media now known or developed in the future, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without further approval by or payment to you. To the extent your Submission makes use of generally commercially available software not owned by you that you used to generate your Submission, but that can be procured by the Competition Sponsor without undue expense, you do not grant the license in the preceding sentence to that software.\n\nThis is commonly understood to mean that both you and the Sponsor will have a full and complete license to do whatever you should wish with the winning model. \n\nPlease note that there are other rules regarding data used in the model and appropriate eligibility given your employment that you should ensure are noted as well."
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