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by TCM 3211 days ago
Its interesting that this tool has no PATENTS grant.
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jiayq84 3211 days ago
Yangqing here from facebook. We consciously made it a MIT license as onnx is intended to be widely shared by a lot of participants, and MIT seems to be more widely agreeable among different parties co-owning it. It's also simpler.
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rofrol 3210 days ago
Oh, so now there was no danger of this nasty patent trolls, like with react case?
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cbuq 3211 days ago
Interesting, it is also MIT instead of the usual BSD + Patents Facebook uses. [1]

It is also under the 'onnx' namespace, presumably because it was a team effort.

It looks like Microsoft often uses MIT (vscode, dotnet, CNTK, ChakraCore), does this mean Microsoft was the driving force (even though it's a Facebook blog)?

* just noticed the link to Microsofts blog at the bottom of the page [2].

[1] https://github.com/onnx/onnx [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/blog/2017/...

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