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Re:Implementing the Elo Rating System (2020) by swirepe on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:05PM (#26119601)
Is your project non-commercial? You can use this[1] official bsd-licensed[2] library for non-commercial projects.

[1] https://trueskill.org/

[2] https://github.com/sublee/trueskill/blob/master/LICENSE

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Re:Implementing the Elo Rating System (2020) by asymptotically3 on Friday February 12, 2021 @07:28PM (#26120286)
If it's BSD licensed, how do they limit it to non-commercial use?
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Re:Implementing the Elo Rating System (2020) by stephencanon on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:28PM (#26120626)
BSD doesn’t have a patent grant, so it would still be protected by patent, even if there’s no copyright restriction on commercial entities using the code.
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