[R-pkg-devel] package CatDataAnalysis
That's a good idea about adding some licence info to the web page, but note that Agresti is not the original source of any of this data. Some of it was published in subject matter papers by the scientists involved. For some perhaps (I don't know) Alan got the whole data set via consulting and the whole data (as opposed to summary statistics) was never published. This is the case for almost all real data that statisticians re-analyze for examples. There is no "licence" and AFAIK (IANAL) none is needed. If there were most textbooks and most papers in statistics would be in violation of law.
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 1:08 PM Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 11:07:46 -0500 Charles Geyer <charlie at stat.umn.edu> wrote:
Please note that I made Alan Agresti (with his acquiescence) the author of the package
Sorry to derail this, but is it possible for Alan Agresti to add a line to the page [*] allowing redistribution of the data, preferably under the terms of a well-known license such as CC BY-NC [**] or ODbL [***]? As it stands, CRAN only has your word (and the fact that this whole thread is Cc: to Prof. Agresti) that Alan Agresti agreed to have the data published as an R package. It might be needed to allow creating derivative works to make creating such a package feasible, though (otherwise I would assume that only literal redistribution is allowed). With that done, you could be much more comfortable providing the requested description for the package, no? -- Best regards, Ivan [*] http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~aa/cda/data.html [**] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ [***] https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/
Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science University of Minnesota charlie at stat.umn.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]