[R-pkg-devel] Extending MIT software

[Charles Determan]

Thank you Thomas, I guess there is nothing, that I am aware of, that
prevents me from releasing with GPL >= 2 but I wanted to get some insights
as to what would be a best practice.  I prefer to give as much credit as
possible where it is do.

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Thomas Petzoldt <
Thomas.Petzoldt at tu-dresden.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not a lawyer, but as far as I know, the MIT license allows
> re-licensing of derived work under the GPL.
>
> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
>
> So what speaks against releasing your derived work under the GPL >= 2?
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
> On 28.05.2015 17:48, Charles Determan wrote:
>
>> When developing a new package we want to have a license attributed to that
>> package.  That said, I am a little confused how one would approach the MIT
>> license.  I am working on a package that extends upon another library that
>> has the MIT license.  I know that I need to create a LICENSE file with
>> YEAR
>> and COPYRIGHT HOLDER.
>>
>> My question is, would the copyright holder be just the authors for this
>> given R package or a combination of the R package authors and the original
>> library authors?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Charles
>>
>
>
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> Faculty of Environmental Sciences
> Institute of Hydrobiology
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