Are you guys saying that an R package that depends on another R package is considered a derivative work? If so, there are probably an enormous number of CRAN/Bioc packages in violation. My choice of license for rtracklayer should not affect the
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: > Le Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 08:47:42AM -0800, Jim Kent a écrit : >> Sorry not to get back to you sooner. I'm just getting a lot of >> post-vacation mail pile up. >> >> A copyleft license sounds like it would work. In particular I would be >> happy to distribute it under Common Development and Distribution License > > Thanks Jim for your help ! > > The GNU General Public License is said to be incompatible with the Common > Development and Distribution License, and I worry that it may cause problem to > Bioconductor modules that directly or transitively depend or import from > rtracklayer. > > If you are looking for a non-GPL alternative, the Mozilla Public License > version 2.0 has similar features to the CDDL (it shares a common ancestor), > but > is compatible with the GPL. > > Have a nice Sunday, > > -- > Charles Plessy > Debian Med packaging team, > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
