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On 2014年10月28日, 10:30 PM, Pierre Haessig wrote:
> Le 21/10/2014 10:09, Eric Firing a écrit :
>> That's the big question: what is the IP status?
> So Nathaniel and I asked, and the blog post author, Steve Eddins, took
> the time to answer :
>
> Nathaniel and Pierre—Thanks for your interest in the new parula
> colormap. /Parula is the end result of a creative design effort over
> an extended period of time. I am pleased that you find it so
> appealing. The colormap is, however, MathWorks intellectual
> property, and it would not be appropriate or acceptable to copy or
> re-use it in non-MathWorks plotting tools./
>
> You might look at other sources of high-quality colormaps. I have
> listed some in my technical paper on rainbow colormaps, published
> earlier this month on mathworks.com.
>
>
> http://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2014/10/20/a-new-colormap-for-matlab-part-2-troubles-with-rainbows/#comment-27702
>
> So they claim the IP. Next question is: is this claim valid, and I'm not
> a lawyer to answer it. I suspect that the answer could be country specific.
Regardless, we should respect their claim. I agree with the basic idea: 
it was the result of a creative process, and they choose to keep that as 
proprietary IP. Therefore mpl will not include a clone of this color 
map. If a user decides to make and use a clone, that's their business, 
not ours. We shouldn't encourage it.
>
> The only things that bother me in this IP claim, is the status of all
> the plots produced with this colormap. They are in a sense a
> /derivative/ work, am I right ? So the question becomes : does Mathworks
> owns IP right for all these plots ?!
Perhaps they could claim copyright infringement; but from the mpl 
perspective, I don't think it matters. The question will only arise in 
practice if a user makes a plot with a clone of parula, and Mathworks 
chooses to turn it into a legal issue. I think it is unlikely this will 
happen; but if and when it does, I don't think mpl will be involved. We 
will not be supplying the colormap or in any way encouraging or 
condoning its use in mpl, unless and until Mathworks releases it.
Eric
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Le 21/10/2014 10:09, Eric Firing a écrit :
> That's the big question: what is the IP status?
So Nathaniel and I asked, and the blog post author, Steve Eddins, took 
the time to answer :
 Nathaniel and Pierre—Thanks for your interest in the new parula
 colormap. /Parula is the end result of a creative design effort over
 an extended period of time. I am pleased that you find it so
 appealing. The colormap is, however, MathWorks intellectual
 property, and it would not be appropriate or acceptable to copy or
 re-use it in non-MathWorks plotting tools./
 You might look at other sources of high-quality colormaps. I have
 listed some in my technical paper on rainbow colormaps, published
 earlier this month on mathworks.com.
http://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2014/10/20/a-new-colormap-for-matlab-part-2-troubles-with-rainbows/#comment-27702
So they claim the IP. Next question is: is this claim valid, and I'm not 
a lawyer to answer it. I suspect that the answer could be country specific.
The only things that bother me in this IP claim, is the status of all 
the plots produced with this colormap. They are in a sense a 
/derivative/ work, am I right ? So the question becomes : does Mathworks 
owns IP right for all these plots ?!
Pierre

We should ask the scikit-image devs how they managed it last summer as I
think they had at least one student.
On Wed Oct 22 2014 at 3:33:11 PM Chris Barker <chr...@no...> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Thomas Caswell <tca...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> We should be a mentoring organization for next summer.
>>
>
> well, maybe. A few years ago Google shifted to preferring fewer, larger,
> mentoring organizations. So python projects have tended to be handled under
> the PSF-sponsored organization.
>
> Or we could go half-way, and have a numfocus one..
>
>
>> we need to have a list of viable projects for a
>>
> summer student. I suspect that these will have to have a balance
>> between importance (to justify doing it) and shiny-ness (to get
>> students to _want_ to do it).
>>
>
> It's a good idea to develop this list regardless of the sponsoring
> organization structure.
>
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