[R-pkg-devel] Relicense to GPL-3?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 6 November 2016 at 16:53, Lenth, Russell V wrote:
| Permission of "all other copyright holders" as in developers of all packages that depend on 'foo'?

Please do have a look at the two FAQs I referenced before:

   https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html

   https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html

In particular this last question of yours is addressed in

   https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#HeardOtherLicense

Dependent packages are of cause NOT the copyright holders. Rather, the
authors of a package (ie you, and whoever worked with you) are.

Dirk

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