License status of CRAN packages
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich <goodrich at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd <at> debian.org> writes:
As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently
has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them:
BARD,BayesDA,CoCo,ConvCalendar,FAiR,PTAk,RScaLAPACK,Rcsdp,SDDA,SGP,
alphahull,ash,asypow,caMassClass,gpclib,mapproj,matlab,mclust,mclust02,
mlbench,optmatch,rankreg,realized,rngwell19937,rtiff,rwt,scagnostics,
sgeostat,spatialkernel,tlnise,xgobi
Small point: FAiR is free. The file LICENSE thing just clarifies that most of the code is AGPL but a couple files can't be included under the AGPL and are plain GPL. As far as I can see, R does not give me the option of saying so in a "standard" way, e.g. putting License: AGPL (>= 3) in the DESCRIPTION file would only be 95% accurate and putting License: AGPL (>= 3) | GPL (>= 3) is misleading.
How about " License: AGPL except for 2 GPL files
If that would make anyone's life easier without making anyone else's life harder, I would be happy to put that in the DESCRIPTION file. I have been doing file LICENSE because it parses on http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/FAiR/index.html and people can click to the LICENSE link to read the details if they are interested. But maybe that is not optimal. Dirk? Ben