On 10/02/2010 07:38 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: > Is there anything on CRAN that is NOT free? I assumed that CRAN > had a policy of not accepting anything that could not be freely > distributed, but I could not find any such statement in a quick search. > The code by Uwe identified 52 packages with "file LICENCE" or "file > LICENSE", plus others with combinations of something like GPL with "file > LICENCE" or "file LICENSE".
I believe the CRAN policy is just that: Freely redistributable. "Free Software" usually means something else: Free usage and modification. One main issue is code licensed "free for non-commercial usage" or "academic usage", which are not Free Software. However, CRAN being a repository with many academic users, it does serve a purpose to distribute them for research purposes. [Long discussion omitted of whether that sort of license was ever a good idea....] -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
