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 in the list at <https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db>? Will packages developed for R using this run into problems during submission? Thank you, Avraham Adler [1] <http://opensource.org/licenses/ISC> [2] <http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html>, <http://choosealicense.com/licenses/#isc> [3] <http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause> [4] <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT> [5] <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ff/LICENSE> This message is intended only for the use of the address...{{dropped:9}}
Is the ISC license acceptable for CRAN?
4 messages · Duncan Murdoch, Ben Bolker, Adler, Avraham
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 in the list at <https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db>? Will packages developed for R using this run into problems during submission?
You are writing to the wrong place. You need to read the CRAN policies on CRAN, and if they don't answer your question, write to CRAN to ask it. Duncan Murdoch
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan <at> 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 in the list at <https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db>? Will packages developed for R using this run into problems during submission?
Yes.
You are writing to the wrong place. You need to read the CRAN policies on CRAN, and if they don't answer your question, write to CRAN to ask it.
"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
My apologies; thank you for the correction. Avraham Adler -----Original Message----- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 8:49 PM To: Adler, Avraham; r-devel at r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Is the ISC license acceptable for CRAN?
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 in the list at <https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db>? Will packages developed for R using this run into problems during submission?
You are writing to the wrong place. You need to read the CRAN policies on CRAN, and if they don't answer your question, write to CRAN to ask it.
Duncan Murdoch
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