On 5 May 2019 at 10:47, Andrew Janke wrote: | I'm interested in porting the R example datasets package to GNU Octave | and Matlab. Would you have objections to my doing so?
You don't even have to ask... [...] | Since R's datasets package is GPL, I think I'd be within my rights to | just do this. But I wanted to ask first, to make sure I didn't ruffle | any feathers. I would include documentation indicating that R is the | original source (well, intermediate source) for these datasets, and have | links pointing back to R's documentation. That is the right way to do that. Respect both copyright (citing and referencing source) and licensing (by picking a license compatible with GPL 2 or later; many of us just prefer to stick to GPL which Octave uses too). Dirk, in no way speaking for R Core but just handing out his $0.02 -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
