On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> And if yes how to do it best? What is the standard procedure here? >>> Should I include base package authors as contributors in DESCRIPTION??? >>> >>> Am I allowed to use MIT + file license with that or is it wrong to do so? >> >> No, you must use the GPL, since the code you copied is licensed under >> the GPL. You can choose to use version 2 or 3 (or both). You do not >> have permission to re-license R code under a different license. > > I think it's slightly murkier than that - MIT is GPL compatible, so > you could license the code you've written as MIT, but the package as a > whole would need to be GPL-2/3.
The package can also be under AGPLv3 AFAIK, just for the sake of completeness. Maybe something else as well. Gabor > Hadley > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
