Hi Andreas, I took over the maintenance of the rmarkdown package only recently, and I was not the person who introduced ioslides to the rmarkdown package. That said, it does seem that the ioslides library's license is missing and unclear. I'm not its author, so I cannot add a license to it. I guess it will be difficult to get in touch with its original authors.
I don't quite see the benefits of making a Debian package for rmarkdown. It is an R package, and it is fairly easy to install from CRAN. Those who use R should be able to install it without sudo apt-get, and those who do not use R probably won't care about an R package. On the other hand, I guess a Debian version of rmarkdown that does not have ioslides can be confusing. Regards, Yihui -- https://yihui.name On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:11 AM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > Hi Yihui Xie, > > I'm considering packaging rmarkdown for Debian since several just > packaged software would profit from it. For Debian uploads I need to > make sure that each file of the source is available and has a proper > license. When I inspected the code I stumbled upon ioslides. This > project has no license in itself (neither in the code copy inside > rmarkdown) nor upstream[1]. Besides the missing license I also notice > that it contains third party components consisting of compressed > JavaScript which is considered by Debian as "binary code" since you can > not really change it. > > Do you see some means to provide a proper license for all components > of ioslides and specifically the source code of > > inst/rmd/ioslides/ioslides-13.5.1/js/polyfills/dataset.min.js > inst/rmd/ioslides/ioslides-13.5.1/js/polyfills/history.min.js > > where I failed to find the origin? > > If not I might consider striping ioslides from the Debian package at > all by disabling the ioslides_presentation function. As far as I > can see rmarkdown is quite featureful even without this. > > What do you think? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > [1] I checked > https://code.google.com/p/io-2012-slides/ as well as > https://github.com/pauldijou/ioslides > > -- > http://fam-tille.de >
