Re: [R-pkg-devel] license for package

2015-05-29 Thread Drew Schmidt
On 05/29/2015 03:31 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Well neither you nor I are lawyers but folks at eg Software Freedom Conservancy (https://sfconservancy.org/) and Software Freedom Law Center (https://www.softwarefreedom.org/) are, and they have views on this that differ from yours. I d

Re: [R-pkg-devel] license for package

2015-05-29 Thread Drew Schmidt
On 05/29/2015 07:56 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Lastly, in many cases [eg when you link against libR], the "aggregate work" will be under GPL (>= 2) anyway. But within the "aggregate work" the code you added can be under a different license (as long as it is compatible). This is the generall