I was looking at https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/ which is first
when you google for "R licenses". Silly me. Kurt says I should have
been looking at share/licenses/license.db in the R source tree.
Thanks. I'm satisfied now.
I don't have any CRAN packages with "Unlimited" on them, but I do ha
> Charles Geyer writes:
> In that case, perhaps the question could be changed to could CC0 be
> added to the list of R licences. Right now the only CC licence that
> is in the R licenses is CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Hmm, I see
Name: CC0
FSF: free_and_GPLv3_compatible
(https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lice
Probably, one side of the issue is that people are unaware of the dangers of
overly permissive statements, like the infamous "collection copyright" which
originally applied to collections of medieval music by anonymous composers, but
extends to the individual items, so that you can't (say) photo
In that case, perhaps the question could be changed to could CC0 be
added to the list of R licences. Right now the only CC licence that
is in the R licenses is CC-BY-SA-4.0.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Brian G. Peterson wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 22:46 -0500, Kevin Ushey wrote:
>> It
On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 22:46 -0500, Kevin Ushey wrote:
> It appears that Unlicense is considered a free and GPL-compatible
> license; however, the page does suggest using CC0 instead (which is
> indeed a license approved / recognized by CRAN). CC0 appears to be
> the primary license recommended by
