[mlpack] Request for comments: change of license to MPL

[Ryan Curtin]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 03:40:28PM -0500, Ryan Curtin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 08:07:57AM -0500, Ryan Curtin wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:31:46PM +0100, Marcus Edel wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Just to be clear we are talking about to migrate to BSD and not to MPL as
> > > pointed out in the mail subject. I think basically switching to a BSD license is
> > > a crucial step to make mlpack easier to deploy in a wide range of scenarios.
> > 
> > Crap, you are right.  Thanks for pointing out my error.  I thought about
> > the MPL for a while but I concluded that BSD is a better choice for
> > simplicity's sake.
> 
> Well, it's been a week and nobody has commented, so I will assume nobody
> has a problem with this.  I will begin to contact contributors and get
> their approval, and I expect to be able to relicense in about a month.

I heard back from contributors faster than expected, and all agreed to
switch to the BSD license, so I'll start the process now.  (It shouldn't
take long.)

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