Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-23 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi Uwe, Thanks for taking the time to reply. Would you be willing to clarify/confirm the current situation regarding the hosting of non-FOSS packages on CRAN, such as those with ACM or Creative Commons license variants that have non-commercial use restrictions? These are presently included in

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-23 Thread Marc Schwartz
> On Oct 23, 2020, at 8:25 AM, Ege Rubak wrote: > > Hi all, > > My two cents are below Marc's summary here: > > On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 20:33 -0400, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> Right now, the interpretation, without further clarification from >> CRAN, would be, it is ok for a package to be on CRAN

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
I do not want to make many general comments about licenses in public, as this is a very difficult matter and I am not a lawyer. But let me cite from the CRAN policies: "Packages with licenses not listed at https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db will generally not be accep

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-23 Thread Ege Rubak
Hi all, My two cents are below Marc's summary here: On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 20:33 -0400, Marc Schwartz wrote: > Right now, the interpretation, without further clarification from > CRAN, would be, it is ok for a package to be on CRAN with license > based usage restrictions included (e.g. for non-com

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-22 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Oct 22, 2020, at 3:47 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 22/10/2020 12:56 p.m., Marc Schwartz wrote: >>> On Oct 22, 2020, at 12:12 PM, Duncan Murdoch >>> wrote: >>> >>> On 22/10/2020 11:55 a.m., Marc Schwartz wrote: > On Oct 22, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > > On Oct

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-22 Thread Marc Schwartz
> On Oct 22, 2020, at 12:12 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 22/10/2020 11:55 a.m., Marc Schwartz wrote: >>> On Oct 22, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:21 AM, Kevin R. Coombes >>> wrote: Hi, I am developing a package and getting a

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-22 Thread Marc Schwartz
> On Oct 22, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:21 AM, Kevin R. Coombes > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am developing a package and getting a NOTE from R CMD check about licenses >> and ultimate dependencies on a restrictive license, which I can't figure out >>

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 22/10/2020 12:56 p.m., Marc Schwartz wrote: On Oct 22, 2020, at 12:12 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 22/10/2020 11:55 a.m., Marc Schwartz wrote: On Oct 22, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:21 AM, Kevin R. Coombes wrote: Hi, I am developing a package and

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-22 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:21 AM, Kevin R. Coombes wrote: > > Hi, > > I am developing a package and getting a NOTE from R CMD check about licenses > and ultimate dependencies on a restrictive license, which I can't figure out > how to fix. > > My package imports flowCore, which has an Artistic-2

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-22 Thread Hugh Parsonage
It’s necessary but not sufficient to use a licence from license.db On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 3:12 am, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 22/10/2020 11:55 a.m., Marc Schwartz wrote: > > > > > >> On Oct 22, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Marc Schwartz > wrote: > >> > >> On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:21 AM, Kevin R. Coombes <

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 22/10/2020 11:55 a.m., Marc Schwartz wrote: On Oct 22, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:21 AM, Kevin R. Coombes wrote: Hi, I am developing a package and getting a NOTE from R CMD check about licenses and ultimate dependencies on a restrictive license, w

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licenses

2020-10-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 22/10/2020 10:21 a.m., Kevin R. Coombes wrote: Hi, I am developing a package and getting a NOTE from R CMD check about licenses and ultimate dependencies on a restrictive license, which I can't figure out how to fix. My package imports flowCore, which has an Artistic-2.0 license. But flowCor