Thanks. Spencer
On 10/2/2010 10:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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 It;s out of date as cran2deb is being rebuilt but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
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