On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:38:22AM -0700, Spencer Graves wrote: > Is there anything on CRAN that is NOT free?
Lots. Also notice that 'free' means more than redistribution. > I assumed that CRAN had a policy of not accepting anything that could not be > freely That's the trouble with assumptions. > distributed, but I could not find any such statement in a quick search. > The code by Uwe identified 52 packages with "file LICENCE" or "file > LICENSE", plus others with combinations of something like GPL with "file > LICENCE" or "file LICENSE". Take http://debian.cran.r-project.org/banned_packages.html as a first start. It;s out of date as cran2deb is being rebuilt but there are all sorts of nastinesses. Some UW packages (mclust et al) have non-free licenses that are academic-only (and hence discriminate on use making them non-free). KU Leuven in Belgium and CSIRO in Australia prohibit commercial use ... Lots of bad examples. But given a universe of 2500+ packages, not entirely surprising that some differ. (The web page comingles unsuitable licenses with other reasons for not building packages such as dependency of external libraries or BioC.) Dirk > > > Thanks, > Spencer > > > On 10/2/2010 9:42 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: >> >> >> On 01.10.2010 23:58, Paul Miller wrote: >>> Hello Everyone, >>> >>> Just finished reading A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using R by >>> Everitt and Hothorn. I'll begin by saying that I quite liked the >>> book. It's both little and mighty in the sense that it's very compact >>> but contains a tremendous amount of useful material. >>> >>> The last chapter of the book deals with cluster analysis. There's a >>> package used in this chapter (I believe that it's called mclust) that >>> charges an annual fee to non-academics. I did a little digging and >>> found out that the annual cost for some one like me would be $100 but >>> it would cost more for people in large companies. This isn't exactly >>> outrageous but got me to wondering how many other packages might not >>> be free. I searched online but didn't find much. >>> >>> Does anyone have any information about this? >> >> Are you talking about CRAN packages? >> If so, looking into the license information of the repository shows >> which have standard licenses such as GPL and which licenses are >> special. Just take a look, e.g. starting with >> >> download.file("http://cran.R-project.org/web/packages/packages.rds", >> "packages.rds", mode="wb") >> x <- .readRDS("packages.rds") >> x <- x[!duplicated(x[,1]),] >> table(x[,"License"]) >> >> >> Best, >> Uwe Ligges >> >> >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > -- > Spencer Graves, PE, PhD > President and Chief Operating Officer > Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. > 751 Emerson Ct. > San José, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.