Relicense fairseq under MIT license (facebookresearch#786)

Summary:
The previous BSD+PATENTS license was controversial. We have been
approved to relicense fairseq under the MIT license.
Pull Request resolved: fairinternal/fairseq-py#786

Differential Revision: D16560654

Pulled By: myleott

fbshipit-source-id: f78b1beb4f2895dd7b9bfc79f5f952a2bfb94034

Author: Myle Ott

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Contributing to FAIR Sequence-to-Sequence Toolkit (PyTorch)
+# Contributing to Facebook AI Research Sequence-to-Sequence Toolkit (fairseq)
 We want to make contributing to this project as easy and transparent as
 possible.
 
@@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ Complete your CLA here: <https://code.facebook.com/cla>
 We use GitHub issues to track public bugs. Please ensure your description is
 clear and has sufficient instructions to be able to reproduce the issue.
 
-## Coding Style
-We try to follow the PEP style guidelines and encourage you to as well.
-
 ## License
-By contributing to FAIR Sequence-to-Sequence Toolkit, you agree that your contributions will be licensed
-under the LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+By contributing to Facebook AI Research Sequence-to-Sequence Toolkit (fairseq),
+you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the LICENSE file in
+the root directory of this source tree.

LICENSE

@@ -1,30 +1,21 @@
-BSD License
+MIT License
 
-For fairseq software
+Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
 
-Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved.
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 
-Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
-are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 
- * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
-    list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-
- * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
-    this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
-       and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-
- * Neither the name Facebook nor the names of its contributors may be used to
-    endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific
-       prior written permission.
-
-THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
-ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
-WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
-DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
-(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
-LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON
-ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
-(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
-SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

PATENTS

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ modeling and other text generation tasks.
 
 ### What's New:
 
+- July 2019: fairseq relicensed under MIT license
 - July 2019: [RoBERTa models and code release](examples/roberta/README.md)
 - June 2019: [wav2vec models and code release](examples/wav2vec/README.md)
 - April 2019: [fairseq demo paper @ NAACL 2019](https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01038)
@@ -109,9 +110,8 @@ We also have more detailed READMEs to reproduce results from specific papers:
 * Google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fairseq-users
 
 # License
-fairseq(-py) is BSD-licensed.
+fairseq(-py) is MIT-licensed.
 The license applies to the pre-trained models as well.
-We also provide an additional patent grant.
 
 # Citation
 

README.md

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3 -u
-# Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
 #
-# This source code is licensed under the license found in the LICENSE file in
-# the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant of patent rights
-# can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 """
 Evaluate the perplexity of a trained language model.

eval_lm.py

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
 #
-# This source code is licensed under the license found in the LICENSE file in
-# the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant of patent rights
-# can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 
 # raw glue data as downloaded by glue download script (https://gist.github.com/W4ngatang/60c2bdb54d156a41194446737ce03e2e)

examples/roberta/preprocess_GLUE_tasks.sh

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-# Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
 #
-# This source code is licensed under the license found in the LICENSE file in
-# the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant of patent rights
-# can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 """
 Scoring script for computing pairwise BLEU and multi-ref BLEU over a set of
 candidate hypotheses.

examples/translation_moe/score.py

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
 #
-# This source code is licensed under the license found in the LICENSE file in
-# the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant of patent rights
-# can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 __all__ = ['pdb']
 __version__ = '0.7.2'

fairseq/__init__.py

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
 #
-# This source code is licensed under the license found in the LICENSE file in
-# the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant of patent rights
-# can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 from collections import Counter
 import os

fairseq/binarizer.py

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
 #
-# This source code is licensed under the license found in the LICENSE file in
-# the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant of patent rights
-# can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 import ctypes
 import math