While looking at someone's question on this list led me to the mclust package, and from there to its license.
Excerpts: Except for strict academic use, use of MCLUST (by itself or through other packages) requires payment of an annual license fee and completion of a license agreement found at the following URL: http://depts.washington.edu/ventures/UW_Technology/Express_Licenses/mclust.php 1. the MCLUST software, including any modifications you may have made to it, remains at your Institution and is not published, distributed, or otherwise transferred or made available in whole or in part, modified or unmodified, to other than Institution employees and/or students under your direct supervision; Someone installing mclust using install.packages() might never see this information, and in fact mclust is in the Multivariate task view so it's installed on my computers. I don't believe I've ever used it, which is a good thing since I'm not a strict academic! Is there any way to flag packages like this, with restrictive or unusual licenses. I tend to assume that anything on CRAN is GPL and not worry about it, but obviously that's untrue. I'd ask if anyone has completed the form and paid the licensing fee, but I don't want anyone to incriminate themselves. And I believe I'll be deleting the package from my systems. Sarah -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
