On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen(a)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