Hi all, I'm trying to familiarize myself with Julia by seeing how it compares to other languages. I would also like to "open-source" my code if it seems useful to others. Unfortunately, licenses have made this process complicated.
A tangible example: I am trying to implement a Julia version of the R package pcalg (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pcalg/index.html). Like most R packages, it is protected under the GPL-3<http://cran.r-project.org/web/licenses/GPL-3> license. Also, the license states that it would consider my implementation a "modification" of the R package. Say I feel that my project is ready to be open-sourced and put it in a github repository. Is it enough to follow the RmathDist.jl <https://github.com/JuliaStats/RmathDist.jl> lead and do the following?: 1. Include the same license in the repository. 2. Cite the R package I modified. A more long term question: I'm guessing a better (and more honest) alternative to the above would be to implement the relevant algorithms by looking at the pseudocode and applying it in a way that is friendlier to future improvements using idiomatic Julia (if it exists yet). After that, open-source it under the MIT license. Would this be a more beneficial approach than the "Julia version of an R package" approach?
