On 27/07/10 13:20, Ben Bolker wrote:
Allan Engelhardt<allane<at> cybaea.com> writes:I only recently discovered options("available_packages_filters" = list(add = TRUE, "license/FOSS")) [cf. help("available.packages", package="utils") in R 2.10.0 or later] which goes nicely with my options("checkPackageLicense" = TRUE) [new in R 2.11]. But now I want to purge my library of packages I would not have installed had I known about this option earlier (I'm looking at you, "gam"!).What's the problem with gam? The ACM license on akima (on which it depends) that requires permission/licensing for commercial use?
In a word: yes. It depends on a non-FOSS package. This is what the new options protect us against. For this particular project, I want to avoid all non-FOSS dependencies.
[OT: Specifically for "gam", I am not sure it is really OK to release it as GPL-2 when it depends on a non-free library that, as far as I can see, does not meet the definition of a "system library"; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs for a discussion. But IANAL and for this project is is a moot point: I want to be clean.]
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