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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by burtonator on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:18PM (#19374437)
My company foolishly donated data to Stanford for nearly a decade.

We asked them for an 'in kind' license to OpenNLP and were basically completely rebuffed. They're taking in money hand over fist.

We need to stop thinking of these as universities anymore. They're cash cows...

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by phonon on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:25PM (#19374485)
Do you mean https://github.com/stanfordnlp/CoreNLP ?

Why would you expect them to relicense GPL libre software to you? What does "in kind" mean?

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by solomatov on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:21PM (#19374837)
They mention on their site that they can give it to you under a commercial license. In order to contribute to it, you should follow their CLA: https://github.com/stanfordnlp/CoreNLP/blob/master/CONTRIBUT... which transfers copyright to them.
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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by nordsieck on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:28PM (#19374511)
> What does "in kind" mean?

in-kind (adj): consisting of something (such as goods or commodities) other than money

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-kind

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by hannasanarion on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:22PM (#19374846)
He's asking, how do you give a good as a gift or payment that is public, free, and open?

It's like asking for an "in kind" license to the Declaration of Independence, it just makes no sense.

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by jonny_eh on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:40PM (#19374595)
A donation is only a donation if you don't expect anything in return.
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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by Simulacra on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:23PM (#19374474)
Tax their endowments.
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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by EpicEng on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:18PM (#19374818)
To be fair, if you were donating data then you shouldn't exactly be expecting something in return. If there was an expectation then someone on your end didn't do their job or something on the Stanford end changed.
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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by atomical on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:26PM (#19374496)
What do you mean a license for OpenNLP?
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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by rhizome on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:37PM (#19374573)
Probably a license to keep their changes private.

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/CoreNLP/blob/master/LICENSE.t...

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