MXNet Source Licenses

1.

Source 

tree

* Move the various git submodules into third-party/ or similar so it's
simpler to see what is Apache original source when we review a release.

submodules

Henri Yandell

Haibin Lin

2.

Copyright

* Deal with the Copyright statements in perl-package (copyright holder has
approved doing this)

perl-package

Henri Yandell

3.

Formatting

* Lots of whitespace on end of NOTICE

NOTICE

Henri Yandell

Meghna Baijal

PR in Review

4.

Comments

* Comment added to CODEOWNERS to explain the file so we don't cause
community problems

CODEOWNERS

Henri Yandell

5.

LICENSE

* There was a suggestion to simplify the LICENSE to not explicitly list
which packages are under each license. Something to consider.

LICENSE

Henri Yandell

This would resolve points 8-11 and 13-19 of this wiki

LICENSE

* Update the Paths to license files once submodules are moved

LICENSE

Meghna Baijal

ISSUES IN SPECIFIC FILES 

6.

Specific 

Files

* Resolve License Header - if you follow the URL mentioned in the file it is unclear 

if the code came form that site or was written for the project by the author 

of that site.

example/image-classification/predict-cpp/image-classification-predict.cc

Justin McClean

7.

Specific 

Files

* Resolve License Header - This file has two license headers

tools/license_header.py

Justin McClean

Meghna Baijal

Possibly RAT got confused 

by the matching string

8.

Specific 

Files

* Check LICENSE - Listed as Apache License in the LICENSE but is it MIT license?

nnvm/tvm/HalideIR/LICENSE

Justin McClean

9.

Specific 

Files

* Check LICENSE - Listed as Apache License in the LICENSE but is it MIT license?

example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/gpu_nms.pyx

Justin McClean

10.

Specific 

Files

* Check LICENSE - Listed as Apache License in the LICENSE but is it MIT license?

example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/gpu_nms.pyx

Justin McClean

11.

Specific 

Files

* Check LICENSE - Listed as Apache License in the LICENSE but is it MIT license?

example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/cpu_nms.pyx

Justin McClean

12.

Specific 

Files

* Missing License Header - is it Apache License?

perl-package/AI-NNVMCAPI/Makefile.PL

Justin McClean

13.

Specific 

Files

* Add to LICENSE - BSD license

src/operator/contrib/ctc_include/contrib/moderngpu/include/mgpudevice.cuh

Justin McClean

14.

Specific 

Files

* Add to LICENSE - A dozen files here are BSD

src/operator/contrib/ctc_include/contrib/moderngpu/include/device/

Justin McClean

15.

Specific 

Files

* Add to LICENSE - BSD license

nnvm/tvm/dmlc-core/cmake/Modules/FindCrypto.cmake

Justin McClean

16.

Specific 

Files

* Add to LICENSE - BSD license

example/ssd/dataset/pycocotools/coco.py

Justin McClean

17.

Specific 

Files

* Add to LICENSE - 6 files are BSD licensed

example/rcnn/rcnn/pycocotools

Justin McClean

18.

Specific 

Files

* Add to LICENSE - BSD license

dmlc-core/cmake/Modules/FindCrypto.cmake

Justin McClean

19.

Specific 

Files

* Add to LICENSE - BSD license

cub/experimental/spmv_compare.cu

Justin McClean

Cub is added to LICENSE 

but is that a BSD license?

20.

Specific 

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it BSD

prepare_mkl.sh

Justin McClean

21.

Specific

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it BSD

src/operator/nn/im2col.h
src/operator/nn/im2col.cuh

Justin McClean

22.

Specific

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it BSD

src/operator/contrib/nn/deformable_im2col.h
src/operator/contrib/nn/deformable_im2col.c

Justin McClean

Fixed for 1.0.0 here - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/9170

 23.

Specific 

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it BSD

src/operator/contrib/ctc_include/contrib/moderngpu/include/mgpuenums.h

Justin McClean

24. 

Specific 

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it BSD

example/ssd/dataset/pycocotools/coco.py

Justin McClean

Yes, looks like BSD license

25. 

Specific 

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it MIT

example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/setup.py

Justin McClean

Yes, looks like MIT license

26.

Specific 

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it MIT

example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/nms_kernel.cu

Justin McClean

 Yes, looks like MIT license

27.

Specific 

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it MIT

example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/setup.py

Justin McClean

 Yes, looks like MIT license

APACHE RAT CHECK FAILURES

28.

RAT Failure

* Fix Submodules - RAT detected almost 2000 files with unknown licenses in submodules

Submodules (nnvm, dlpack, 3rdparty, ps-lite, mshadow) and R-package

Decision needed on how to handle submodule licenses

29.

RAT Failure

* Check Docs - RAT detected almost 200 files with unknown licenses in the Docs directory

/docs

30.

RAT Failure

* Fix dockerfiles without license headers

/docker

Meghna Baijal

31.

RAT Failure

* Fix docker_multiarch - unknown license header

/docker_multiarch

32.

RAT Failure

* Fix scala-package - unknown license

/scala-package

33.

RAT Failure

* Fix tools

/tools

34.

RAT Failure

* Fix tests

/tests

35.

RAT Failure

* Fix examples

/examples

36.

RAT Failure

* Check file types that can be ignored - .txt; .js, .md, .json, .yml, .*, 

/

Meghna Baijal

37.

RAT Failure

* Fix ctc_include

src/operator/contrib/ctc_include