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by programnature 3432 days ago
Actually not clear if there is an official affiliation with Facebook, other than some of the primary devs.
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throwawayish 3432 days ago
Copyright (c) 2016- Facebook, Inc (Adam Paszke)

Copyright (c) 2014- Facebook, Inc (Soumith Chintala)

Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Idiap Research Institute (Ronan Collobert)

Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Deepmind Technologies (Koray Kavukcuoglu)

Copyright (c) 2011-2012 NEC Laboratories America (Koray Kavukcuoglu)

Copyright (c) 2011-2013 NYU (Clement Farabet)

Copyright (c) 2006-2010 NEC Laboratories America (Ronan Collobert, Leon Bottou, Iain Melvin, Jason Weston)

Copyright (c) 2006 Idiap Research Institute (Samy Bengio)

Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Idiap Research Institute (Ronan Collobert, Samy Bengio, Johnny Mariethoz)

Notably absent is the otherwise Facebook-typical PATENTS license thing. Which I see as a good sign.

Also, it doesn't look like this has happened just now? PRs in the repo go back a couple months and the repo has 100+ contributors.

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smhx 3432 days ago
it's the same license file as https://github.com/torch/torch7 and http://torch.ch

The C libraries are shared among the Lua and Python variants

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