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CEBRA License

Versioning Notice

  • Versions < 0.1.0 have "no license", see https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/.
  • Versions 0.1.0 to 0.3.1 are covered under the Non-Commercial License Agreement appended below.
  • Versions 0.4.0 - present are covered under the Apache-2.0 license appended below.

Please note EPFL has filed a patent titled "Dimensionality reduction of time-series data, and systems and devices that use the resultant embeddings" (https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2023143843A1) so if this does not work for your non-academic use case, please contact the TTO Office at EPFL.

Version 0.4.0+ are covered under the following license

Copyright (2023-present) Mackenzie W. Mathis & Steffen Schneider

Apache License

Version 2.0, January 2004

http://www.apache.org/licenses/

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Versions 0.1.0 to 0.3.1 are covered under the following agreement:

Non-Commercial License Agreement: CEBRA

© All rights reserved. ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Laboratory of Prof. Mackenzie W. Mathis (UPMWMATHIS) and original authors: Steffen Schneider, Jin H Lee, Mackenzie W Mathis. 2023.

Introduction

  • This license agreement sets forth the terms and conditions under which ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE ( EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and Prof. Mackenzie W. Mathis and code authors (hereafter "LICENSOR") will grant you (hereafter "LICENSEE") a fully-paid, non-exclusive, and non-transferable license for academic, non-commercial purposes only (hereafter “LICENSE”) to use the "CEBRA" computer software program (hereafter "PROGRAM").

  • LICENSEE acknowledges that the PROGRAM is a research tool that is being supplied "as is", without any related services, improvements or warranties from LICENSOR and that this license is entered into in order to enable others to utilize the PROGRAM in their academic activities.

  • The ideas covered in this work is also patent pending (as of Jan 2023): US 63/302,670 “DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION OF TIME-SERIES DATA, AND SYSTEMS AND DEVICES THAT USE THE RESULTANT EMBEDDINGS”

  • If this license is not appropriate for your application, please contact Prof. Mackenzie W. Mathis ([email protected]) and/or the TTO office at EPFL ([email protected]) for a commercial use license.

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  5. LICENSEE agrees that they shall credit the use of CEBRA with an appropriate citation: Steffen Schneider, Jin H. Lee, Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis. Learnable latent embeddings for joint behavioral and neural analysis. Nature 2023 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06031-6.

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