{
  "id": 18230,
  "title": "open source code?",
  "url": "/competitions/second-annual-data-science-bowl/discussion/18230",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-01-04T00:26:42.803Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>To what extent is open source software allowed in this competition? For example can we use opencv, skimage, or even something as common as pandas? I assume submitted code is uploaded to a server and ran against the test data, so we must make some assumption about what packages will available on the kaggle servers so that our model runs properly.</p>\n\n<p>Sorry for the basic question, I did try searching on the competition forum and elsewhere on the kaggle site but I couldn't find a concrete answer to my question.</p>",
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      "id": "103526",
      "postDate": "01/04/2016 00:26:42",
      "content": "<p>To what extent is open source software allowed in this competition? For example can we use opencv, skimage, or even something as common as pandas? I assume submitted code is uploaded to a server and ran against the test data, so we must make some assumption about what packages will available on the kaggle servers so that our model runs properly.</p>\n\n<p>Sorry for the basic question, I did try searching on the competition forum and elsewhere on the kaggle site but I couldn't find a concrete answer to my question.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "To what extent is open source software allowed in this competition? For example can we use opencv, skimage, or even something as common as pandas? I assume submitted code is uploaded to a server and ran against the test data, so we must make some assumption about what packages will available on the kaggle servers so that our model runs properly.\r\n\r\nSorry for the basic question, I did try searching on the competition forum and elsewhere on the kaggle site but I couldn't find a concrete answer to my question.",
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      "id": "103636",
      "postDate": "01/05/2016 04:08:42",
      "content": "<p>@arubin88,</p>\n\n<p>Here's what the rules say about open source code:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>OPEN-SOURCE CODE</p>\n  \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>other than an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see <a href=\"http://opensource.org/\">http://opensource.org/</a>); or</li>\n  <li>an open source license that prohibits commercial use</li>\n  </ul>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Not being a lawyer, I can't tell you <em>exactly</em> what that means, but it's my understanding that most open source software is fine.  Certainly, things with a BSD license should be fine since that is   &quot;Open Source Initiative-approved&quot; and does not prohibit commercial use. I'm sure many other licenses qualify as well, but I believe that all the packages you list are all BSD licensed.</p>\n\n<p>Admittedly that text is pretty confusingly worded though.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "arubin88,\r\n\r\nHere's what the rules say about open source code:\r\n\r\n>  OPEN-SOURCE CODE\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/>); or\r\n> * an open source license that prohibits commercial use\r\n\r\nNot being a lawyer, I can't tell you *exactly* what that means, but it's my understanding that most open source software is fine.  Certainly, things with a BSD license should be fine since that is   \"Open Source Initiative-approved\" and does not prohibit commercial use. I'm sure many other licenses qualify as well, but I believe that all the packages you list are all BSD licensed.\r\n\r\nAdmittedly that text is pretty confusingly worded though.",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 103636,
      "author_name": "bitsofbits",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/05/2016 04:08:42",
      "content": "<p>@arubin88,</p>\n\n<p>Here's what the rules say about open source code:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>OPEN-SOURCE CODE</p>\n  \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>other than an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see <a href=\"http://opensource.org/\">http://opensource.org/</a>); or</li>\n  <li>an open source license that prohibits commercial use</li>\n  </ul>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Not being a lawyer, I can't tell you <em>exactly</em> what that means, but it's my understanding that most open source software is fine.  Certainly, things with a BSD license should be fine since that is   &quot;Open Source Initiative-approved&quot; and does not prohibit commercial use. I'm sure many other licenses qualify as well, but I believe that all the packages you list are all BSD licensed.</p>\n\n<p>Admittedly that text is pretty confusingly worded though.</p>",
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    "103526": "To what extent is open source software allowed in this competition? For example can we use opencv, skimage, or even something as common as pandas? I assume submitted code is uploaded to a server and ran against the test data, so we must make some assumption about what packages will available on the kaggle servers so that our model runs properly.\r\n\r\nSorry for the basic question, I did try searching on the competition forum and elsewhere on the kaggle site but I couldn't find a concrete answer to my question.",
    "103636": "arubin88,\r\n\r\nHere's what the rules say about open source code:\r\n\r\n>  OPEN-SOURCE CODE\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/>); or\r\n> * an open source license that prohibits commercial use\r\n\r\nNot being a lawyer, I can't tell you *exactly* what that means, but it's my understanding that most open source software is fine.  Certainly, things with a BSD license should be fine since that is   \"Open Source Initiative-approved\" and does not prohibit commercial use. I'm sure many other licenses qualify as well, but I believe that all the packages you list are all BSD licensed.\r\n\r\nAdmittedly that text is pretty confusingly worded though."
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