FWIW, I've been rejecting them where I see them. Mind filing serious bugs on those 11?
Paul On Mar 20, 2016 11:32 AM, "Mattia Rizzolo" <mat...@debian.org> wrote: > [ please CC me as I'm not in d-legal@ ] > > So, today I discovered [0] that R-project has some polices regarding > licenses [1]. In particular they have one regarding the MIT license > [2]. This needs to go together with their extensions manuals [3]. > > Read together they say that if you have an R module you want to license > under MIT (which is really Expat) you have to: > > * Add a line with "License: MIT + file LICENSE" in the DESCRIPTION file > * Add a LICENSE file with only (and they are explicit on the "only") 2 > lines: > YEAR: <years of the copyright claim> > COPYRIGHT HOLDER: <name/surname/email, etc> > > period. > > Now, the Expat/MIT license (in particular the one present at [2] have > quite a clear statement: > > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be > included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. > > that requires the whole MIT license to be reported verbatim in every > release and copy of code covered by it. > But according to the R policy, R extensions do not, and the only > reference to the MIT license is the single word "MIT" in the DESCRIPTION > file. > > This seems to have been accepted by the ftp-masters, as there are at > least 11 packages [4] in this condition already in the archive. I > should admin that with our packaging the distribution of these piece of > software is ok, as we add a copy of license in the debian copyright > file. > > Still, I think the way the R project distributes MIT-licensed stuff is > not ok. > > What do you think? Am I seeing a problem that actually isn't? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818622#25 > [1] https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/ > [2] https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/MIT > [3] https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Licensing > [4] found by looking up 'path:debian/copyright License: MIT' in > codesearch.d.n and grepping the results for packages named /r-cran/ > > -- > regards, > Mattia Rizzolo > > GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. > more about me: http://mapreri.org : :' : > Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` > Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `- >
