Thank you all very much for your (extremely) prompt reply.
If datasets' authors won't agree on releasing their data under GPL, I'll
follow G. Grothendieck suggestion and build a ad-hoc data-package.
Thanks,
Gionata.
2014-07-21 20:04 GMT+02:00 Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> In practice, CRAN maintainers do not allow multiple licenses for parts
> >> of the same package. At least they did not for my package a couple of
> >> months ago.
> >>
> >
> > If that is the case then you could put your data files in a separate
> > package from the code with one depending on the other.
>
> Yes, and sometimes this even makes sense, as the data does not change
> often.
>
> This was, however, a package with several data sets, accompanying a
> book. So this would have been quite cumbersome.
>
> Gabor
>
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