Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-23 Thread Chris Brien
to take. Cheers, Chris -Original Message- From: Martyn Plummer [mailto:plumm...@iarc.fr] Sent: Wednesday, 24 January 2018 4:20 AM To: Chris Brien; e...@debian.org; murdoch.dun...@gmail.com Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package On Tue, 2018

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-23 Thread Martyn Plummer
-Original Message- > From: Martyn Plummer [mailto:plumm...@iarc.fr] > Sent: Tuesday, 23 January 2018 4:26 AM > To: Chris Brien; e...@debian.org; murdoch.dun...@gmail.com > Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package > > On Fri,

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-23 Thread Chris Brien
of packages. Cheers, Chris -Original Message- From: Martyn Plummer [mailto:plumm...@iarc.fr] Sent: Tuesday, 23 January 2018 4:26 AM To: Chris Brien; e...@debian.org; murdoch.dun...@gmail.com Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package On Fri

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-22 Thread Martyn Plummer
hris > > > -Original Message- > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:dirk.eddelbuet...@gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Dirk Eddelbuettel > Sent: Saturday, 20 January 2018 2:30 AM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: Chris Brien; r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-deve

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-19 Thread Chris Brien
el Sent: Saturday, 20 January 2018 2:30 AM To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: Chris Brien; r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package Chris, I am with Duncan here. You can license _your_ package any way you want and prefer. I like GPL. You seem to imply that the GPL

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 19 January 2018 at 10:00, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | Also look eg at our Rblpapi package. The Bloomberg API is not open source, | but they allow distribution of the (pre-built) library and headers. Our | package, building on top, is GPL-2+. No issues. (This example is extra fun Correction.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Chris, I am with Duncan here. You can license _your_ package any way you want and prefer. I like GPL. You seem to imply that the GPL license prohibits linking against commercial code. If that were the case we'd never have R, Emacs, gcc/g++, ... on Windows or macOS or any of the

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/01/2018 3:31 AM, Chris Brien wrote: Dear list members, I have come to realize that my understanding of free software licensing was somewhat naïve. The problem is that I now find that, in spite of spending quite a bit of time reading about various licenses on the web, I have been unable

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Of > Barry Rowlingson > Sent: Friday, 19 January 2018 8:00 PM > To: Chris Brien > Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package > > Chris, > > you've not said what *you* would like the license for your software to > do. Y

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-19 Thread Chris Brien
[mailto:r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Brian G. Peterson Sent: 19 January 2018 20:56 To: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package Chris, on C) even commercial packages have licenses. If the commercial package contains a linkable

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-19 Thread Chris Brien
To: Chris Brien Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package Chris, you've not said what *you* would like the license for your software to do. You could release the software under a "public domain", "no rights reserved" style license

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-19 Thread Brian G. Peterson
: stefan.mckinnon.edwa...@gmail.com [mailto:stefan.mckinnon.edwa...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Stefan McKinnon Høj-Edwards Sent: Friday, 19 January 2018 7:58 PM To: Chris Brien Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package Hi Chris, Just for clarification

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-19 Thread Chris Brien
and that `foo' is not. Thanks for your interest. Cheers, Chris From: stefan.mckinnon.edwa...@gmail.com [mailto:stefan.mckinnon.edwa...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Stefan McKinnon Høj-Edwards Sent: Friday, 19 January 2018 7:58 PM To: Chris Brien Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Chris, you've not said what *you* would like the license for your software to do. You could release the software under a "public domain", "no rights reserved" style license, and then if people want to link it with proprietary materials then nothing can stop them. But it wouldn't stop people

[R-pkg-devel] Licensing of an R package

2018-01-19 Thread Chris Brien
Dear list members, I have come to realize that my understanding of free software licensing was somewhat naïve. The problem is that I now find that, in spite of spending quite a bit of time reading about various licenses on the web, I have been unable to identify a suitable license for the