On 11 September 2009 at 17:25, Kurt Hornik wrote: | I thought I had already explained the last time the GPL-only suggestion | came up that this will not happen for CRAN. | | But again: we have invested considerable time into getting the license | specs standardized, and writing code to compute on these. Time | permitting, R 2.10.0 will feature code that allows specifying license | filters which can be customized according to individuals' needs. But I | see no point in physically representing one particular license profile. | | Btw, there are less non-free packages on CRAN than packages which claim | to be free but have non-free installation dependencies: some would argue | that the latter is impossible from a license perspective. I feel little | desire to start arguing about this, as being able to control package | installation by license filters will resolve matters anyway.
Indeed, that would possibly solve some our (as in cran2deb) worries too. So a nig Thanks! for working on this, and of course for providing CRAN in the first place. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel