Re: Clarification regarding inclusion of PageRank in Mahout

[Sebastian Schelter <ss...@apache.org>]

Pinging this question. Is there anyone who can propose a way to tackle 
this problem? Am I as PMC member in a position to contact Stanford and 
just ask about that patent issue? Id like to give it a try although it 
seems not very promising.

--sebastian

On 22.06.2011 19:04, Sebastian Schelter wrote:
> Hello,b
>
> this is Sebastian from the PMC of Apache Mahout writing. We received a
> contribution that includes an implementation of Google's famous PageRank
> algorithm (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-742 ).
>
> We'd love to include this in Mahout, yet we know that the University of
> Stanford is holding a patent on PageRank (
> http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6285999 ). It seems that this patent
> is not enforced because there are a lot of PageRank implementations
> already available on the internet.
>
> However we'd like to get clarification on whether we are allowed to
> include this implementation in Mahout.
>
> I already contacted Prof. Garcia-Molina from Stanford's Departments of
> Computer Science and Electrical Engineering asking for advice who
> helpfully suggested to contact Deputy General Counsel Thomas W. Fenner
> (tfenner [at] stanford.edu) to clarify the legal issues.
>
> This is my first time working on a legal issue regarding Apache, what is
> the process and what do I have to do to get clarification?
>
> Thank you,
> Sebastian


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