License status of CRAN packages
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