Hi Aaron, the Debian R packaging team intends to package basilisk for Debian. In Debian the ftpmaster team has the role to verify licenses and copyright of new software. The team member who was checking my upload considers the files in
inst/example/inst/test_dummy as differently licensed than the whole basilisk package and wants me to mention it as licensed under the MIT license[1]. I personally disagree since I consider this a simple example string inside a code snippet but ftpmaster rejected even a second time with the words: "upstream decided that this test package should have a different license than the rest of his software and said so in the corresponding setup.py"[2]. The statement of FTPMaster is based on line 9 of a 12 line of code example file[3]. It contains the string "license='MIT'" while all other code of the package is GPL-3. It would be great if you could explicitly express your intention to stop wild guessing whether it is a license statement or an example string. Thanks a lot and sorry for stealing your time with this kind of questions Andreas. [1] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/r-pkg-team/2022-February/024165.html [2] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/r-pkg-team/2022-February/024248.html [3] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-bioc-basilisk/-/blob/master/inst/example/inst/test_dummy/setup.py#L9 -- http://fam-tille.de -- http://fam-tille.de