An Apache/MIT rewrite

[nick-konovalchuk]

Following up on #10, a bunch of people including me is curious if you're interested in putting managerial or/and development efforts into rewriting certain parts of the repo so that the license could be more permissive

[nick-konovalchuk]

@Sharpz7 @zeeshan3945

[waytechpro]

Thank you for raising this important consideration! Expanding the accessibility of our repository through a more permissive license could truly amplify collaboration and innovation. Count me in for contributing to the effort! Let's gather our insights and skills to make this vision a reality. Don't hesitate to reach out and let's get started!

[UYousafzai]

Hello,

I can possibly join in on the effort to rewrite the functionality for a more permissive license. the models however will remain with their original license but at least the code will be separated out.

[Youho99]

I can possibly help you to rewrite the basecode

[vlaminckaxel]

I'm also willing to collab in this effort!

[vlaminckaxel]

Has someone the knowledge to make a list of what parts are non-MIT and needs to be rewritten?

[szmate00]

I would be also interested in joining efforts regarding this, would be really useful for my application to have a less strict license!

[alessandrolamberti]

I'm also willing to collaborate!

[Youho99]

@nick-konovalchuk How do we organize ourselves?

Does somebody have an idea ?

[UYousafzai]

@WongKinYiu would you be interested in organising this?

@Youho99 An alternative I am thinking is I can create a small discord, we fork this code and go through it, separate out the code that needs to be reimplemented and just split it among us who are willing to work on it.

[GrantorShadow]

@WongKinYiu would you be interested in organising this?

@Youho99 An alternative I am thinking is I can create a small discord, we fork this code and go through it, separate out the code that needs to be reimplemented and just split it among us who are willing to work on it.

This sounds great! I would love to be a part of and contribute code for this!

[GrantorShadow]

@nick-konovalchuk How do we organize ourselves?

Does somebody have an idea ?

How about a small discord / slack server? would be easier to co-ordinate the development for this.

[alessandrolamberti]

How about a small discord / slack server? would be easier to co-ordinate the development for this.

Discord is a good idea, but we probably need a handful of people (2-3) in charge to organize

[BDannowitzHudl]

I can also find time to contribute. Please feel free to cc: me on the discord / slack.

[UYousafzai]

I have created the Discord Server, however I haven't had the time to set it up properly, I have started looking into some core code and will start doing it properly if and when I find the time from my work.

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/XBpjFQxu

[Youho99]

@WongKinYiu
It would be great if you could join us, to give us some information regarding the parts to be rewritten

[WongKinYiu]

Okay

I create a new repo for mit rewrite: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9mit
Maybe move the discussion to the repo.

I will organize the code's prototype in 1~2 weeks.
I think I can handle most of implementation of architectures and loss functions.
And need someone to give great help about dataloader and ddp training.

[UYousafzai]

I can pitch in on whatever you need help with, how do you plan on managing the tasks?

[Sharpz7]

Hey Folks, sorry I have just seen this.

Great to see this coming together. My bandwidth is limited right now but I look forward to watching this grow :))

My suggestion would be that all the work that needs completed is scoped up in one place, and then split into sub-tasks that can be completely by different people. Let me get working on that now :))

[Sharpz7]

Please see; WongKinYiu/YOLO#3

[optimisticabouthumanity]

Dear everyone, if Mr. Wong Kin Yiu's introduced blocks for YOLOv9 are moved to YOLOv9mit repository, will there be licensing issue as these codes have already been licensed under GPL3.0?
Or there will be no problem since the inventor agreed to provide a more permissive license to His works?

[optimisticabouthumanity]

Dear everyone, if Mr. Wong Kin Yiu's introduced blocks for YOLOv9 are moved to YOLOv9mit repository, will there be licensing issue as these codes have already been licensed under GPL3.0? Or there will be no problem since the inventor agreed to provide a more permissive license to His works?

@Sharpz7 @nick-konovalchuk could you check this? @WongKinYiu could you please also check at your convenience?

[GrantorShadow]

Following this!