[Rd] license
Kasper Daniel Hansen
kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 19:30:20 CEST 2012
R-devel now gives a warning for a non-standard license (this may have
happened for a while).
In Rgraphviz we include the Graphviz source code, which is under
Eclipse. But the rest of the R package is under Artistic-2.0 or at
least contains code from past contributors which were licensed under
Artistic-2.0.
The standard licenses does not really give an option for this
situation, apart from using 'file LICENSE' (with details on this).
However, this situation - including an external piece of software -
seems to me to be increasingly common. It may be worthwhile to have
the possibility of specifying this in a more machine readable way.
But it may also be too complicated. I just wanted to bring attention
to the issue.
Kasper
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