I think this is covered well by the CRAN repository policy: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html
The two key license requirements are that: 1) CRAN must have a perpetual license to distribute the package 2) The package license should be listed here: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db Packages with licenses not included in that list are generally not accepted. However, there are exceptions, and you can find some by searching for "non-commercial site:cran.r-project.org" on Google. See also section 1.1.2 of the Writing R Extensions manual for an explanation. Personally, I would not want to add the extra complexity to a package that is otherwise GPL. Martyn On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 19:23 -0400, Ben Bolker wrote: > Does anyone have speculations about the implications of the GPL for > data included in a package, or more generally for restricting use of data? > > The specific use case is that I have a package which is otherwise > GPL (version unspecified at present). There are various data sets > included, but they are all essentially in the public domain. I'm > thinking about including another data set, but the original author of > that data might like to impose some reasonable restrictions (e.g. > please don't use in an academic publication without explicit > permission ...) Would such rules be expected to be compatible with > CRAN rules? Will having the package be "GPL except for file XXX, see > LICENSE" mess things up horribly? > > I can of course make the data available for download and include a > link, and/or make a special package that contains only these data, but > it would seem to be more convenient for end users, and more > future-proof, to put everything in one place. > > I know I will eventually need to take this up with CRAN, but I'm > looking for reasonably informed opinions/suggestions ... > > cheers > Ben Bolker > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and its attachments are strictly confidenti...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
