Hello, I have found a list of all software licenses supported by CRAN at the following site:
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db There is also the list of commonly used licenses here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/licenses/ I have tried to read through some of these licenses, but I am not a lawyer and some of the legal jargon is difficult to get through. I have a simple question: Are there any packages available on CRAN that have a license that requires that every use of a particular package (e.g. in an analysis) be made open source as well? I have never heard of this being the case, and it does not appear to be true for any of the most commonly used licenses, but from what I understand it would be possible for someone to create a license that has this requirement. I apologize for the mass email if this is not the best forum for this question, but I could not find an answer elsewhere. Thank you, Jonathan ______________________________ Jonathan Gellar Statistician Mathematica Policy Research 1100 First Street NE, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20002 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
