On 31 May 2015 at 22:42, Pieter Eendebak wrote:
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| On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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| On 29 May 2015 at 11:44, Pieter Eendebak wrote:
| | Dear developers,
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| | How can I specify the license for my package when my package includes
| some
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On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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> On 29 May 2015 at 11:44, Pieter Eendebak wrote:
> | Dear developers,
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> | How can I specify the license for my package when my package includes
> some
> | code with other licenses (and different copyright holders). In
> particular:
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
On 29 May 2015 at 08:23, Drew Schmidt wrote:
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| 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 l
On Fri, 29 May 2015, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 29 May 2015 at 11:44, Pieter Eendebak wrote:
| Dear developers,
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| How can I specify the license for my package when my package includes some
| code with other licenses (and different copyright holders). In particular:
|
| - my package is BSD 2-
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
On 29 May 2015 at 11:44, Pieter Eendebak wrote:
| Dear developers,
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| How can I specify the license for my package when my package includes some
| code with other licenses (and different copyright holders). In particular:
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| - my package is BSD 2-clause
| - my packages in includes MPL-2 code (
Dear Pieter,
there was recently a related discussion in the JSS editorial board. Some
people took the position that there should be maximum possible freedom
for software developers in choosing an appropriate license. Others saw
the problem of confusion for users and developers of derived work,
Dear developers,
How can I specify the license for my package when my package includes some
code with other licenses (and different copyright holders). In particular:
- my package is BSD 2-clause
- my packages in includes MPL-2 code (Eigen math library)
- my package includes some MIT code (differ
