On: Surprise – a simple recommender system library for Python

[bedros]

GPLv3 will kill this project.

this is a library, and should have a library license, at least LGPLv3.

[rch → bedros]

Looks like the author is a student, so it could be that wide adoption isn't the objective. It's still an excellent resume builder.

[Niourf → bedros]

Hi, I'm Nicolas, Surprise's author. Thanks for the feedback!

You're not the first person to tell me GPL may not be a good idea and to be fair I never really thought it would make such a difference. Appart from LGPL, what other license would you recommend?

[bedros → Niourf]

most python based web applications are using Django, and Django is BSD licensed.

https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/LICENSE

a recommendation engine is great for all kind of web apps, and licensing it with BSD makes it more adopted by django web apps.

Thanks,

[Niourf → bedros]

Thanks for the input, I changed the license to BSD!

[zeveb → Niourf]

Be aware that if you license your work under the BSD then someone else can take your work, change it, improve it, sell it — and never share his changes with you.

So Netflix could take your recommender system, use it to make millions and do nothing but mention you in a footnote somewhere on their website.

[oliwarner → zeveb]

And they wouldn't even need to do that.