[R-pkg-devel] Extending MIT software
Thank you Thomas, I guess there is nothing, that I am aware of, that prevents me from releasing with GPL >= 2 but I wanted to get some insights as to what would be a best practice. I prefer to give as much credit as possible where it is do. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Thomas Petzoldt <
Thomas.Petzoldt at tu-dresden.de> wrote:
Hi, I am not a lawyer, but as far as I know, the MIT license allows re-licensing of derived work under the GPL. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License So what speaks against releasing your derived work under the GPL >= 2? Thomas On 28.05.2015 17:48, Charles Determan wrote:
When developing a new package we want to have a license attributed to that package. That said, I am a little confused how one would approach the MIT license. I am working on a package that extends upon another library that has the MIT license. I know that I need to create a LICENSE file with YEAR and COPYRIGHT HOLDER. My question is, would the copyright holder be just the authors for this given R package or a combination of the R package authors and the original library authors? Regards, Charles
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