Thank you for your explanation. *-------------------------------------*
*Aristide Elysée HOUNDETOUNGAN* *Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Université Laval* *Personal website : *www.ahoundetoungan.com On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 11:08, Ivan Krylov <krylov.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:47:37 -0500 > Elysée Aristide <ariel92...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I did not want to put restrictions. > > Apologies, I could have phrased this better. > > If you want the whole of your package to be distributed under the terms > of Apache-2.0 or GPL-3 license (at the user's choosing), the following > DESCRIPTION fragment seems to be the way to express that intent: > > License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE > > > What is the better thing to put if I do not want to put > > restrictions? The easiest one which allows sharing, copying ...? > > Personally, I would keep things simple by choosing only one license. > Exactly which one to choose is a question of personal preference, as > such known to result in flame wars, so I must try to stay neutral. > > For R packages, the line between Apache-style "please retain the > copyright notice if you redistribute" licenses and GPL-style "please > share your improvements as source code if you redistribute" is somewhat > blurry, since people typically share source .tar.gz packages anyway, > thus fulfilling the terms of both licenses. The differences only come > into play only when other people distribute the _binary_ packages built > from your source code they _modified_. > > Perhaps re-reading WRE 1.1.2 > <https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Licensing> or > consulting websites like <https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/licences/> or > <https://choosealicense.com/> would help? > > -- > Best regards, > Ivan > > [If you don't mind, let's keep this correspondence on the list by > replying-to-all and Cc:-ing <r-package-devel@r-project.org>] > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
