Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: >> I'm not sure if it's correct, but I changed the license from gpl3+ to >> gpl2+ to keep it consistent with the r-markdown package >> (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility). Thanks >> for figuring that out. > > actually, the author responded and said that “GPL” in the package’s > DESCRIPTION file just means “any GPL version”. Here’s the comment: > > https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/566#issuecomment-140095735 > > The licensing guidelines for R packages state that > > “Abbreviations GPL and LGPL are ambiguous and usually taken to mean > any version of the license” > > In this case “gpl2+” is probably correct, but you may want to add a > comment above the ‘(license ...)’ expression to state that any GPL > version may be picked by users here. > > What do others think?
I agree with your suggestion. Ludo’.
