Is the ISC license acceptable for CRAN?

Ben Bolker · 2014-07-24T04:07:23Z

Duncan Murdoch gmail.com> writes: > On 23/07/2014, 6:13 PM, Adler, Avraham wrote: > Good afternoon. > > > The ISC (Internet Software Consortium) license[1] is a permissive, > > open-source license that is considered "functionally equivalent"[2] > > to the Simplified (2-clause) BSD[3] and MIT[4] licenses, but with > > extraneous language removed. There is at least one package on CRAN > > which incorporates some code using it[5]. Are there plans to include > > this license

Ben Bolker

Wed, Jul 23, 2014 9:07 PM

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan <at> gmail.com> writes:

Yes.

"Packages with licenses not listed at
 https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db 
will generally not be accepted."

 You'd better write to cran at r-project.org to ask permission.

  Ben Bolker

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Adler, Avraham Is the ISC license acceptable for CRAN? Jul 23 Duncan Murdoch Is the ISC license acceptable for CRAN? Jul 23 Ben Bolker Is the ISC license acceptable for CRAN? Jul 23 Adler, Avraham Is the ISC license acceptable for CRAN? Jul 24