On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
Hi Ori and Matt,
Matt, I agree that they probably picked an inappropriate license. However, we shouldn't assume that the people picking the license have a very sophisticated understanding of licenses. It might be worthwhile to ask the authors why they chose CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 instead of a free license (like MIT, Apache, GPL or AGPL). If we approach them respectfully, we might convince them to learn more about our ideals, and change the license on their software.
Ori, this is a fantastic find! I haven't created this wiki page yet, but I think it should exist: https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Colorization
It'd be really awesome if https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Colorization contained a pointer back to this discussion.
That is, of course, that people reading this list agree is interesting. Anyone here against colors? ;-)
Rob