Re:Ask HN: Are weights trained from a dataset also under the...
by Nomentatus on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @12:16AM
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IANAL. From your example.
"Researcher shall use the Database only for non-commercial research and educational purposes."
So they saw you coming. Your efforts of whatever kind can't end up in a commercial product by you. Could you put your weights into the public domain? (Meaning others could profit.) Maybe. Might be a court case, but I think they'd lose it.
A later clause allows for-profit companies to do non-profit related research, as I read it.
"Researcher shall use the Database only for non-commercial research and educational purposes."
So they saw you coming. Your efforts of whatever kind can't end up in a commercial product by you. Could you put your weights into the public domain? (Meaning others could profit.) Maybe. Might be a court case, but I think they'd lose it.
A later clause allows for-profit companies to do non-profit related research, as I read it.