Re: [Rd] license

2012-09-24 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 24.09.2012 19:30, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: R-devel now gives a warning for a non-standard license (this may have happened for a while). Yes, for several years now. In Rgraphviz we include the Graphviz source code, which is under Eclipse. But the rest of the R package is under Artisti

[Rd] license

2012-09-24 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
R-devel now gives a warning for a non-standard license (this may have happened for a while). In Rgraphviz we include the Graphviz source code, which is under Eclipse. But the rest of the R package is under Artistic-2.0 or at least contains code from past contributors which were licensed under Art

Re: [Rd] License question

2011-08-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-08-16 4:33 PM, Uwe Schmitt wrote: Am 16.08.2011 22:23, schrieb Kevin Wright: With open source software, you can do anything you want on your own computer. The difficult questions arise when you want to re-distribute software. You have provided very little context for your question, so th

Re: [Rd] License question

2011-08-16 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 22:33 +0200, Uwe Schmitt wrote: > The question is, if I am allowed to distribute the R.dll and the > related libraries together with my software, or > if it is better to ask the user to install these himself. By principle it is better *not* to bundle libraries into the softw

Re: [Rd] License question

2011-08-16 Thread Uwe Schmitt
Am 16.08.2011 22:23, schrieb Kevin Wright: > With open source software, you can do anything you want on your own > computer. The difficult questions arise when you want to > re-distribute software. > > You have provided very little context for your question, so the > standard answer on this ema

Re: [Rd] License question

2011-08-16 Thread Kevin Wright
With open source software, you can do anything you want on your own computer. The difficult questions arise when you want to re-distribute software. You have provided very little context for your question, so the standard answer on this email list is "Talk to your lawyer". Kevin On Tue, Aug 16

[Rd] License question

2011-08-16 Thread Uwe Schmitt
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list for my question, so please redirect me if this is the wrong place for the following question: Am I allowed to include R.dll and Rblas.dll in other software ? In my case I'm want to run some R commands from a Python script and save the results.

Re: [Rd] License statement

2010-12-23 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 18:04 -0800, Scott Gonyea wrote: > Heh. That's annoying. The R Mailing List should really set the > "reply-to" header. No it shouldn't, if you mean set the list as the reply-to address that i. If I want to reply to a message you sent, I Reply to you. If I want that reply to

Re: [Rd] License statement

2010-12-22 Thread Scott Gonyea
Heh. That's annoying. The R Mailing List should really set the "reply-to" header. I wrote two e-mail, so here they are: There's a 'source' command in R, so I should not use that word. If you're not copying out chunks of code and inserting them, you own the code itself. No one can somehow

Re: [Rd] License statement

2010-12-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 22/12/2010 5:35 PM, David Scott wrote: I am writing a package for a company for its internal use only. What is an appropriate license statement for the DESCRIPTION file? I think "Internal use only, not for distribution" is reasonable. The copyright statement is separate from the licens

[Rd] License statement

2010-12-22 Thread David Scott
I am writing a package for a company for its internal use only. What is an appropriate license statement for the DESCRIPTION file? I would like a statement which reflects the private and proprietary nature of the package, giving copyright to the writer and the company. I also don't want to vi

Re: [Rd] License of R manuals

2010-09-29 Thread Hadley Wickham
> Hmm, well... I have always understood it so that: (a) yes, it's GPL-2 (what > else could it be) and (b) it means that the restrictions of GPL apply insofar > as they make sense, e.g., you can pick it apart and reuse it in other GPL-2 > or compatible products, but not take it proprietary. Upon

Re: [Rd] License of R manuals

2010-09-29 Thread Peter Dalgaard
On Sep 29, 2010, at 17:05 , Hadley Wickham wrote: > Hi all, > > Under what license are the R manuals (R language definition etc) > released? They are not mentioned explicitly in license() and have no > license information in the individual documents. Does this mean that > they are released und

[Rd] License of R manuals

2010-09-29 Thread Hadley Wickham
Hi all, Under what license are the R manuals (R language definition etc) released? They are not mentioned explicitly in license() and have no license information in the individual documents. Does this mean that they are released under GPL-2? If so, what does that mean, given that they aren't so

Re: [Rd] License for Rembedded.h

2010-08-04 Thread Tom Quarendon
nterface and wanting to link to that interface and whether the intention or the actuality of the license allow that. Thanks! -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Tom Quarendon Sent: 03 August 2010 13:23 To: r-devel@r

[Rd] License for Rembedded.h

2010-08-03 Thread Tom Quarendon
Possibly more of a legal question than a technical development question, but here goes. In the doc\COPYRIGHTS file it is made clear that the intention is that you can write R packages and distribute them under licenses not compatible with GPL, by making the relevant header files available und

Re: [Rd] License of Port3 library for R

2009-09-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Pin Tian Ng wrote: >      I developed some code that called subroutines from the Port3 Library > (http://www-out.bell-labs.com/project/PORT/).  I¹m thinking about making it > available as an R package.  But I¹m not sure if their NON-EXCLUSIVE SOURCE > CODE LICENSE AG

[Rd] License of Port3 library for R

2009-09-01 Thread Pin Tian Ng
I developed some code that called subroutines from the Port3 Library (http://www-out.bell-labs.com/project/PORT/). I¹m thinking about making it available as an R package. But I¹m not sure if their NON-EXCLUSIVE SOURCE CODE LICENSE AGREEMENT ( http://www-out.bell-labs.com/topic/swdist/licens

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Goodrich
I don't have a strong opinion about partitioning the repository, but I don't think partitioning based on whether the license is commonly used for R packages is terribly helpful. AGPL and AGPL + GPL3 are not common licensing schemes for R packages currently, but from the perspective of a useR, there

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Christophe Dutang
Hi all, I think for the common licences, we should also add BSD licence... for example my pkg randtoolbox (which is currently with incompatible licences) will probably be in a near future with the BSD licence. Anyway I like the idea of two different repositories for GPL like licensed pkg

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Goodrich
Kurt Hornik wrote: > AGPL, unfortunately, allows supplements, and hence cannot fully be > standardized. We've been thinking about extending the current scheme to > indicate a base license plus supplements, but this is still work in > progress. This would be helpful. I would just reemphasize that

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Ben Goodrich wrote: > Kurt Hornik wrote: >> AGPL, unfortunately, allows supplements, and hence cannot fully be >> standardized.  We've been thinking about extending the current scheme to >> indicate a base license plus supplements, but this is still work in >> pro

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 24 April 2009 at 10:18, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: | On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich wrote: | | > Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: | > > As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb | > currently | > > has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Kjetil Halvorsen writes: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich wrote: >> Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: >> > As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb >> currently >> > has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them: >> > >> >

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Kjetil Halvorsen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: > > As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb > currently > > has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them: > > > > BARD,BayesDA,CoCo,ConvCalendar,FAiR,PTA

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Ben Goodrich writes: > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich >> wrote: >>> Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and do

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Greg Snow
y, April 23, 2009 3:05 PM > To: Gabor Grothendieck > Cc: Friedrich Leisch; Matthew Dowle; charles blundell; r-de...@r- > project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages > > > On 23 April 2009 at 16:35, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > | Of the 31 pack

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Goodrich
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich > wrote: >> Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: >>> As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently >>> has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them: >>> >>> BARD,Baye

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: >> As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently >> has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them: >> >>      BARD,BayesDA,CoCo,ConvCalendar,FAiR,PTAk,RSca

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 April 2009 at 16:35, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | Of the 31 packages listed: | [1] "BARD" "BayesDA" "CoCo" "ConvCalendar" | [5] "FAiR" "PTAk" "RScaLAPACK""Rcsdp" | [9] "SDDA" "SGP" "alphahull" "ash" | [13] "asypow"

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Goodrich
Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: > As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently > has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them: > > BARD,BayesDA,CoCo,ConvCalendar,FAiR,PTAk,RScaLAPACK,Rcsdp,SDDA,SGP, > alphahull,ash,asypow,caMassCl

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 April 2009 at 15:35, Marc Schwartz wrote: | There is a list of acceptable entries that are defined as part of the | specs in R-exts (see page 4). Perhaps this needs to be "tightened" a | bit, at least in so far as packages passing R CMD check for the | purpose of inclusion on CRAN. Tha

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
In some other software systems there are separate repositories for free and non-free add-ons. That way its clear what you are downloading yet there are good outlets for both types of software. There has been some discussion of future features that CRAN might have that might make this even easier

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Of the 31 packages listed: [1] "BARD" "BayesDA" "CoCo" "ConvCalendar" [5] "FAiR" "PTAk" "RScaLAPACK""Rcsdp" [9] "SDDA" "SGP" "alphahull" "ash" [13] "asypow""caMassClass" "gpclib""mapproj" [17] "matlab"

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Apr 23, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 23 April 2009 at 15:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > (Subject: renamed as thread hijacked from the ParallelR thread --Dirk) | > | > On 23 April 2009 at 14:44, Gabor

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 April 2009 at 15:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > (Subject: renamed as thread hijacked from the ParallelR thread --Dirk) | > | > On 23 April 2009 at 14:44, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | > | Aside from R there are the add-on pa

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > (Subject: renamed as thread hijacked from the ParallelR thread   --Dirk) > > On 23 April 2009 at 14:44, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > | Aside from R there are the add-on packages. > | > | A frequency table showing the licenses of the CRAN

[Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
(Subject: renamed as thread hijacked from the ParallelR thread --Dirk) On 23 April 2009 at 14:44, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | Aside from R there are the add-on packages. | | A frequency table showing the licenses of the CRAN packages indicates | that the all or almost all packages have some so

Re: [Rd] License question (RUnit)

2009-04-01 Thread Christophe Dutang
Hi, Try to contact the other authors... I spent 5 min on google and found this http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Verwiss/koenig/ Regards Christophe Le 1 avr. 09 à 10:58, Pierre-Yves a écrit : Dear list, Sorry for the noise but I have a question regarding the license used in RUnit [1], I

[Rd] License question (RUnit)

2009-04-01 Thread Pierre-Yves
Dear list, Sorry for the noise but I have a question regarding the license used in RUnit [1], I contacted the maintainer( burgerm -at- users -dot- sourceforge -dot- net ) on March 20th but I have received no answer. Could anyone help to solve this question ? Basically, my problem is that the web

Re: [Rd] License Conflict?

2008-07-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Martin Maechler wrote: "GaGr" == Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:51:50 -0400 writes: GaGr> Is this a true problem? No; as Oholoh mentions there are only two files which mention the artistic licence, namely src/main/apse.[ch] Apart fr

Re: [Rd] License Conflict?

2008-07-21 Thread Martin Maechler
> "GaGr" == Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:51:50 -0400 writes: GaGr> Is this a true problem? No; as Oholoh mentions there are only two files which mention the artistic licence, namely src/main/apse.[ch] and these two contain >> Copyright (C) by

[Rd] License Conflict?

2008-07-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Is this a true problem? Artistic License may conflict with GPL The source code for R contains references to both the GNU General Public License 2.0 (GPL) and to the Artistic License. These two licenses include some contradictory restrictions. The Ohloh source code parser is exhaustive, and can r