[R-pkg-devel] Relicense to GPL-3?

2016-11-05 Thread Lenth, Russell V
Dear all, I received an email from a user telling me that another package that depends on my package is licensed GPL(>=3), whereas mine is licensed GPL-2; and that therefore, the other package is in violation of its GPL-3 license. This apparently causes an issue with the Debian packaging system

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Relicense to GPL-3?

2016-11-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 6 November 2016 at 02:28, Lenth, Russell V wrote: | I received an email from a user telling me that another package that | depends on my package is licensed GPL(>=3), whereas mine is licensed GPL-2; | and that therefore, the other package is in violation of its GPL-3 license. That is apparen