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MIT License for spaCy, though you'd never know it from the home page of the site. It is really frustrating to have such a nice tool with such a beautiful site, but have the site have no mention of the word "License" on it. Yes, it's in the code, but if one goes to the trouble to make such a great site, well...

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spaCy's license has evolved over time. I know when its creator was discussing it on HN a few years ago, he had it under AGPL [0]:

> This was my understanding --- actually I designed the licensing structure of this project around the assumption that companies would not want to use GPL licensed code commercially. I offer an AGPL license, and offer a commercial license for a fixed fee.

A couple years ago or so it went MIT, I think he might have mentioned it on HN at the time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8944705

sorry but why MIT license is bad here?

I don't think parent is complaining about the MIT license, they are complaining about how hard it is to find out what license is being used.

I think he's just saying that it's a shame, because if people knew it was MIT licensed they would be more likely to use it.

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