On 5/6/19 7:47 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 5 May 2019 at 10:47, Andrew Janke wrote: > | I'm interested in porting the R example datasets package to GNU Octave > | and Matlab. Would you have objections to my doing so? > > You don't even have to ask... > > [...] > > | Since R's datasets package is GPL, I think I'd be within my rights to > | just do this. But I wanted to ask first, to make sure I didn't ruffle > | any feathers. I would include documentation indicating that R is the > | original source (well, intermediate source) for these datasets, and have > | links pointing back to R's documentation. > > That is the right way to do that. Respect both copyright (citing and > referencing source) and licensing (by picking a license compatible > with GPL 2 > or later; many of us just prefer to stick to GPL which Octave uses too). > > Dirk, in no way speaking for R Core but just handing out his $0.02
Thanks Dirk! I've ported many of the datasets over to Octave code in my "Tablicious" project. To preserve credit, I've: - propagated the "Copyright (C) 1995-2007 R Core Team" copyright statement to the copyright headers in all the individual files for the Octave code, since GNU Octave does per-file copyright headers - added a "This is based on the <name> dataset from R's datasets package" comment to each individual dataset source file - added a section to the user manual mentioning that they came from R: https://apjanke.github.io/octave-tablicious/doc/tablicious.html#Data-Sets-from-R My project is GPL3+, so it's license compatible. If you're curious to see how it turned out, the source is at https://github.com/apjanke/octave-tablicious under https://github.com/apjanke/octave-tablicious/tree/master/inst/%2Boctave/%2Binternal/%2Bdatasets and https://github.com/apjanke/octave-tablicious/tree/master/inst/%2Boctave/%2Bexamples/%2Binternal/%2Bdatasets. R seems to have an edge on Octave in terms of plotting capabilities, so many of the code examples in my port are just "TODO: Port this plot type to Octave". Cheers, Andrew ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
