Re: [R-pkg-devel] best LICENSE practices: AGPL-3 + LaTeX Project Public License

2021-07-15 Thread Ben Bolker
Thanks very much. In the end I gave up and removed the offending LaTeX files, as the goal of this was to get the package to build on r-hub's Fedora platform, and it seems more promising to work with the r-hub folks to get a sufficiently complete LaTeX installation available there (as the

Re: [R-pkg-devel] best LICENSE practices: AGPL-3 + LaTeX Project Public License

2021-07-15 Thread Hadley Wickham
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:11 AM Ben Bolker wrote: > > >In the process of trying to get a package to build successfully on > r-hub's Fedora platform, I had to add a whole bunch of LaTeX .sty files > to the vignette directory. One of these was collectbox.sty, which > triggers the NOTE > > ---

Re: [R-pkg-devel] best LICENSE practices: AGPL-3 + LaTeX Project Public License

2021-07-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13/07/2021 6:40 p.m., Steven Scott wrote: I'll let others discuss the technical details of how to set up the licence files. I want to make sure you know that using AGPL is a good way to ensure that nobody in tech uses your package. Maybe that's intended, but when I was at Google the ONLY

Re: [R-pkg-devel] best LICENSE practices: AGPL-3 + LaTeX Project Public License

2021-07-13 Thread Ben Bolker
AGPL was chosen by my colleagues. I'll pass on the information. On 7/13/21 6:40 PM, Steven Scott wrote: I'll let others discuss the technical details of how to set up the licence files.  I want to make sure you know that using AGPL is a good way to ensure that nobody in tech uses your

Re: [R-pkg-devel] best LICENSE practices: AGPL-3 + LaTeX Project Public License

2021-07-13 Thread Steven Scott
I'll let others discuss the technical details of how to set up the licence files. I want to make sure you know that using AGPL is a good way to ensure that nobody in tech uses your package. Maybe that's intended, but when I was at Google the ONLY software we were specifically prohibited from

[R-pkg-devel] best LICENSE practices: AGPL-3 + LaTeX Project Public License

2021-07-13 Thread Ben Bolker
In the process of trying to get a package to build successfully on r-hub's Fedora platform, I had to add a whole bunch of LaTeX .sty files to the vignette directory. One of these was collectbox.sty, which triggers the NOTE --- NOTE The following files contain a license that requires