On 05/03/2016 03:21 PM, Ori Livneh wrote:
A forthcoming paper
<http://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/~iizuka/projects/colorization/en/> from
researchers at Waseda University of Japan have developed a method for
automatic image colorization using deep learning neural network. The
results are both impressive and easy to reproduce, as the authors have
published
their code <https://github.com/satoshiiizuka/siggraph2016_colorization> to
GitHub with a permissive license.
Unfortunately, this is not an open source license, and thus we should
not use it. It uses Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0.
Creative Commons consistently recommends against any use of CC licenses
for software, and this one in particular is not libre or open source
because it has a non-commercial restriction.
Matt Flaschen