Hi!
I am grad student currently working on a package that uses Stan under the hood (specifically, CmdStanPy) for modeling. Ofcourse the package does more things, but Stan and the Bayesian workflow are its core components. I was thinking of including ‘Stan’ as a prefix to my package name. I have seen other stan-derivitive packages that do something similar (e.g. scikit-stan scikit_stan - Stan Regression Models in sk-learn Style — SciKit Stan documentation).
I wanted to know if that was allowed/okay, and who I could contact for permission.
Best,
Sid
I don’t think we have any policy on this. I know that there are already some R packages that wrap RStan that use Stan in their names. Not sure about in Python. Tagging some people who may have thoughts on this @SGB @WardBrian @Bob_Carpenter and maybe others will chime in too
Stan web page states
Both the Stan name and logo may be freely used when referencing Stan, for example, in blog posts, lecture notes, or open source software packages, but they may not be used in the branding of commercial entities, such as paid software packages or paid courses, without the express license of the Stan Governing Body.
but it does not explicitly say what is our opinion on using Stan as part of the package name which is not under stan-dev. There are already some packages that are using Stan as part of their name and we have not sued them. I remember that this has been discussed before, but I can’t remember details. I have reached for previous SGB members and other developers in case some one can point to written discussion of this before. If no-one can find the previous discussion, SGB will clarify the statement on the web page.