Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Because the common FOSS licenses are installed with R, CRAN asks you to refer to those copies not distribute your own. See 'Writing R Extensions'. I agree that most R packages are lacking copyright statements (which is a separate issue, and whose purpose varies by jurisdiction: provided owne

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: > On 8 Jul 2011, at 16:12, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Federico Calboli >> wrote: >>> On 8 Jul 2011, at 15:56, Spencer Graves wrote: > Ok, thanks for that. I though that, since R in under GPL-v2, I can o

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Federico Calboli wrote: > The vast majority of CRAN libraries seem to be released under some sort of > GPL version. I never seen a license though. You're right. The GNU people say "should": http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html --- You should also includ

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 08/07/2011 10:56 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: On 7/8/2011 4:26 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: > On 8 Jul 2011, at 12:06, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 11-07-08 6:20 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: >>> HI All, >>> >>> I have written and succesfully uploaded a new package. The licence it is under is '

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Spencer Graves
On 7/8/2011 8:07 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: On 8 Jul 2011, at 15:56, Spencer Graves wrote: Ok, thanks for that. I though that, since R in under GPL-v2, I can only release my code under GPL-v2 because the code is written in R and probably qualifies as a derivative work. Did you include someone

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > On 7/8/2011 4:26 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: >> On 8 Jul 2011, at 12:06, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >>> On 11-07-08 6:20 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: HI All, I have written and succesfully uploaded a new package. The licence it is

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Federico Calboli
On 8 Jul 2011, at 16:12, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Federico Calboli > wrote: >> On 8 Jul 2011, at 15:56, Spencer Graves wrote: Ok, thanks for that. I though that, since R in under GPL-v2, I can only release my code under GPL-v2 because the code is writte

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Federico Calboli wrote: > On 8 Jul 2011, at 15:56, Spencer Graves wrote: >>> Ok, thanks for that. I though that, since R in under GPL-v2, I can only >>> release my code under GPL-v2 because the code is written in R and probably >>> qualifies as a derivative work.

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On 07/08/2011 07:58 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: On 7/8/2011 4:26 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: On 8 Jul 2011, at 12:06, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 11-07-08 6:20 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: HI All, I have written and succesfully uploaded a new package. The licence it is under is 'GPL' --no version

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Federico Calboli
On 8 Jul 2011, at 15:56, Spencer Graves wrote: >> Ok, thanks for that. I though that, since R in under GPL-v2, I can only >> release my code under GPL-v2 because the code is written in R and probably >> qualifies as a derivative work. > > Did you include someone else's GPL-vx code (possibly

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Spencer Graves
On 7/8/2011 4:26 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: On 8 Jul 2011, at 12:06, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 11-07-08 6:20 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: HI All, I have written and succesfully uploaded a new package. The licence it is under is 'GPL' --no version. My assumption is, since all the code is writt

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Federico Calboli
On 8 Jul 2011, at 12:06, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11-07-08 6:20 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: >> HI All, >> >> I have written and succesfully uploaded a new package. The licence it is >> under is 'GPL' --no version. My assumption is, since all the code is written >> in R the licence R used for

Re: [R] Making a new package: licence

2011-07-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-07-08 6:20 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: HI All, I have written and succesfully uploaded a new package. The licence it is under is 'GPL' --no version. My assumption is, since all the code is written in R the licence R used for R would affect the code (hence my "GPL" stands for "whatever ve