[1.8.x] LICENSE needs update/review

[samskalicky]

Description

Per the discussion on Apache general regarding the v1.8.0.rc1 vote, we need to review and update our license file.

We need to review each 3rdparty submodule's LICENSE and update the corresponding entries in the MXNet LICENSE file:

• ctc_include
• dlpack
• dmlc-core
• googletest
• intgemm [DONE][@kpuatamazon link]
• mkldnn [WIP] @anko-intel @bartekkuncer
• mshadow [DONE][@szha link]
• nvidia_cub [DONE][@ptrendx link]
• onnx-tensorrt [Needs Update][@ptrendx link]
• openmp
• ps-lite
• tvm

For each submodule, we need to verify that all entries in that LICENSE file is included in our MXNet license file.

[leezu]

An alternative is to stop redistributing the 3rdparty code an provide scripts for users to download the 3rdparty code during / before build configuration.

[kpuatamazon]

Regarding intgemm, I think #19406 covers me. MIT (most code) and Boost and explicitly mentioned.

[samskalicky]

Regarding intgemm, I think #19406 covers me. MIT (most code) and Boost and explicitly mentioned.

Thanks! Marked integemm as done.

[szha]

mshadow has already been handled with the merge. it's not whitelisted in rat-exclude and it's not actually 3rdparty anymore.

[szha]

@PatricZhao could someone on your team help verify mkldnn licenses?

[samskalicky]

mshadow has already been handled with the merge. it's not whitelisted in rat-exclude and it's not actually 3rdparty anymore.

Thanks @szha does this apply to ctc_include too?

[ptrendx]

There was no change in nvidia_cub licensing.

For onnx-tensorrt - there is a change to pybind licensing (3rdparty of onnx, which is 3rdparty of onnx-tensorrt), resolving #15547.

[samskalicky]

For onnx-tensorrt - there is a change to pybind licensing (3rdparty of onnx, which is 3rdparty of onnx-tensorrt), resolving #15547.

Does this change include the issues raised in the email thread? Is the pybind license up-to-date with these files:

1. ./3rdparty/onnx-tensorrt/third_party/onnx/third_party/pybind11/tests/test_gil_scoped.cpp
2. ./3rdparty/onnx-tensorrt/third_party/onnx/third_party/pybind11/tests/test_tagbased_polymorphic.cpp
3. ./3rdparty/onnx-tensorrt/third_party/onnx/third_party/pybind11/tests/test_union.cpp

[sandeep-krishnamurthy]

@samskalicky - TVM is already covered -https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/v1.8.x/LICENSE#L235 what needs to be done here?

Should we transitively callout TVM's depedencies as well? https://github.com/apache/incubator-tvm/blob/9bd2c7b44208ed992061f8c2688e1137357f1db1/LICENSE#L209

[Zha0q1]

it looks like ctc_include has not been changed since Oct 2018. it uses the exact same apache 2.0 license as ours except for this line at the end of their license file

  Copyright 2015-2016, Baidu USA LLC.

we have this

4. Warp-CTC - For details, see, 3rdparty/ctc_include/LICENSE
         Copyright 2015-2016, Baidu USA LLC.

Update: ctc_include in turn includes morderngpu and we have this in our license:

3. Moderngpu - For details, see, 3rdparty/ctc_include/contrib/moderngpu/LICENSE
         Copyright (c) 2013, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.