Relicense ParlAI from BSD+Patents to MIT (facebookresearch#1359)

* Update license file.
* Codemode.
* Update readme.
* Also announce it in news.

LICENSE

@@ -1,30 +1,21 @@
-BSD License
+MIT License
 
-For ParlAI 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.

NEWS.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 <h2>News</h2>
+2019-01-16: ParlAI has been relicensed under the MIT open source license.
+
 2018-11-05: Added [Wizard of Wikipedia](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01241), a dataset for knowledge-powered conversation.
 
 2018-11-02: Added [Image-Chat](https://klshuster.github.io/image_chat/), a dataset for engaging personality-conditioned dialogue grounded in images.

README.md

@@ -334,4 +334,4 @@ Please cite the [arXiv paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06476) if you use ParlA
 ```
 
 ## License
-ParlAI is BSD-licensed. We also provide an additional patent grant.
+ParlAI is MIT licensed. See the LICENSE file for details.

docs/source/_static/css/parlai_theme.css

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 /*
-Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-All rights reserved.
-This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 */
 
 @import url("theme.css");

docs/source/agents.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 core.agents
 ===================================

docs/source/build_data.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 core.build_data
 ===================================

docs/source/cli_usage.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 Command Line Usage
 ==================

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
-# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 #
 # ParlAI documentation build configuration file, created by
 # sphinx-quickstart on Wed Apr 19 15:46:54 2017.

docs/source/dict.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 core.dict
 ===================================

docs/source/example_seq2seq.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 agents.example_seq2seq
 ======================

docs/source/generate_cli.py

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
-# Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
-# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 import os
 import parlai.scripts

docs/source/generate_task_list.py

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
-# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 from parlai.tasks.task_list import task_list
 
 category_order = ['QA', 'Cloze', 'Goal', 'ChitChat', 'Negotiation', 'Visual']

docs/source/generate_zoo_list.py

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
-# Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
-# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 from parlai.zoo.model_list import model_list
 

docs/source/index.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 .. ParlAI documentation master file, created by
    sphinx-quickstart on Wed Apr 19 15:46:54 2017.

docs/source/metrics.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 core.metrics
 ===================================

docs/source/observations.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 observations
 ============

docs/source/params.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 core.params
 ===================================

docs/source/repeat_label.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 agents.repeat_label
 ===================================

docs/source/tasks.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 Tasks
 ===================================

docs/source/teachers.rst

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 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 core.teachers
 ===================================

docs/source/thread_utils.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 core.thread_utils
 ===================================

docs/source/torch_agent.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 core.torch_agent
 ===================================

docs/source/tutorial_basic.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 What is ParlAI?
 ===============

docs/source/tutorial_messenger.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 Using Facebook Messenger
 ========================

docs/source/tutorial_mturk.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 Using Mechanical Turk
 =====================

docs/source/tutorial_quick.rst

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 ..
-  Copyright (c) 2017-present, Facebook, Inc.
-  All rights reserved.
-  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style 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.
+  Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 ParlAI Quick-start
 ==================