Merge pull request #56 from Xiao-Chenguang/acknowledge

Add acknowledgement to the easydict project.

README.md

@@ -66,3 +66,7 @@ This is controlled by the parameter `NUM_PROCESS` which can be set in the [confi
 Setting `NUM_PROCESS` to 0 will use the serialization mode where each client trains sequentially in same global round.
 Setting `NUM_PROCESS > 0` will use the parallel mode where `NUM_PROCESS` workers consume the clients tasks in parallel.
 The recommended value for `NUM_PROCESS` is the number of **CPU cores** available.
+
+## Acknowledgement
+- This project includes code from [easydict](https://github.com/makinacorpus/easydict), licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.0.
+See the [easydict's LICENSE](https://github.com/makinacorpus/easydict?tab=LGPL-3.0-1-ov-file) for details.

fedmind/utils.py

@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@ def __pow__(self, other):
 
 class EasyDict(dict):
     """
+    An dot accessible dictionary.
+
+    Code modified from [easydict](https://github.com/makinacorpus/easydict) project.\\
+    Licensed under the LGPL version 3.0.
+
+
     Get attributes
 
     >>> d = EasyDict({'foo':3})