G'day Jeff, On Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:34:21 -0700 Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
Not that I want to get involved in old discussions :), but... > MIT is more permissive than GPL2, ... this statement depends on how one defines "permissive". MIT requires that you fulfil: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) Whereas GPL 2 merely requires that you "[...] conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty [...]". Thus, arguably, GPL 2 is more permissive. > so there is a collision there. Well, luckily the FSF does not think that the MIT license is incompatible with the GPL license, though it finds the term "MIT license" misleading and discourages its use, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Cheers, Berwin ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
